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Since the time it became evident that ellipticals are not rotationally supported, there has been an increasing interest on their dynamical properties, and new models have been formulated. However, the spectroscopic, as well as the photometric and morphological observations, do not provide yet a clear understanding of the structure of these objects,just proving that they are much more complicated than thought before. An obvious way to attack the problem seems to look at the motions of the gaseous component in those few cases where it is present, because of the different response to the same potential field of the gas and star components.
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Bertola, F., Bettoni, D., Capaccioli, M. (1983). Gas and Star Kinematics in Elliptical Galaxies. In: Athanassoula, E. (eds) Internal Kinematics and Dynamics of Galaxies. International Astronomical Union/Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 100. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7075-5_87
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