Ratio of rotation to dispersion plotted against projected ellipticity, for various galaxies. Note that many Ellipticals have very little rotation, even though they are quite flattened.
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The normalized ratio (Vrot / )* is roughly unity for low to mid-luminosity Ellipticals, but drops well below unity for the most luminous (i.e. massive) ellipticals.
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The normalized ratio (Vrot / )* is roughly unity for disky galaxies with positive values of a4, but falls well below unity for the boxy (high luminosity) ellipticals with negative values of a4.
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