Isotropic stellar pressure deprojection ($p(r)=-\frac{1}{2\pi r}\frac{d}{dr}{\int }_{r^2}^{\infty }\frac{N(\sqrt{u}){\sigma }_{\mathrm{los}}^2(\sqrt{u})}{\sqrt{u-r^2}}du$)

For a spherical, nonstreaming stellar population with isotropic velocity dispersion, each component of the random pressure tensor equals $p=n⟨v_r^2⟩$. The observed second stellar velocity moment satisfies $N(R){\sigma }_{\mathrm{los}}^2(R)=2{\int }_R^{\infty }p(r)r/\sqrt{r^2-R^2}dr$. Composing this Abel transform with itself gives the displayed inverse under sufficient decay and regularity. The Spherical Jeans equation then gives ${\psi }^{\prime }=p^{\prime }/n$, with gravitational acceleration $\nabla \psi$. The Poisson equation for Newtonian gravity recovers total gravitating mass density, not just the tracer density. Without velocity isotropy the same projected moment also contains anisotropic stresses.