Registry · Definition
V.D122
tau-effective
formalized
V.D122 — Morphological Capacity Profile --- V.D55
The morphological capacity profile classifies galaxies by the spatial shape of C_D(x): elliptical galaxies have slowly varying ellipsoidal profiles; spiral galaxies have disk-like profiles with non-axisymmetric perturbations producing spiral arms via density waves.
Book V
Part 5
Ch. 36