Velocity dispersion profiles associated to the distribution function presented in Fig. 1 for different degrees of embedding, namely α = a/b = 0.01,0.1, and 1 from top to bottom. Left column: intrinsic radial (solid) and tangential (dashed) velocity dispersions as a function of radial distance r/a. Right column: corresponding line-of-sight velocity dispersions as a function of projected distance R/a. The resulting σ_los profiles are relatively flat, especially for small α, i.e., 0.01 and 0.1, and reach a finite value at the center. In general, the curves bear a good resemblance to the observed velocity dispersion profiles of stars in dSph satellites of the Milky Way, as determined in, e.g., Walker et al. (2009).