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Article Contents
1 Introduction
2 Definition of the models
3 Basic properties
4 The energy budget and the virial theorem
5 The distribution function and the differential energy distribution
6 The LOSVD
7 Discussion and conclusion
Appendix A: The function W${_\gamma }$(r)
Appendix B: The function ${\mathcal{Q}}$(x) for some selected models
References

List of figures

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