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===Structural Form Factors=== In our [[SSC/Virial/Polytropes#Virial_Equilibrium_of_Adiabatic_Spheres|accompanying detailed analysis]], we demonstrate that the expressions given above for the free-energy function and the virial theorem are correct in sufficiently strict detail that they can be used to precisely match — and assist in understanding — the equilibrium of embedded polytropes whose structures have been determined from the set of detailed force-balance equations. In order to draw this association, it is only necessary to realize that, very broadly, the constant coefficients, <math>~\mathcal{A}</math> and <math>~\mathcal{B}</math>, in the above [[SSC/Virial/PolytropesSummary#FreeEnergyExpression|algebraic free-energy expression]] are expressible in terms of three [[SSCpt1/Virial#Structural_Form_Factors|structural form factors]], <math>\tilde\mathfrak{f}_M</math>, <math>\tilde\mathfrak{f}_W</math>, and <math>\tilde\mathfrak{f}_A</math>, as follows: <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~\mathcal{A}</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~\equiv</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>\frac{1}{5} \cdot \biggl[ \biggl( \frac{M_\mathrm{limit}}{M_\mathrm{tot}} \biggr) \frac{1}{\tilde\mathfrak{f}_M} \biggr]^2 \cdot \tilde\mathfrak{f}_W \, ,</math> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~\mathcal{B}</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~\equiv</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math> \frac{4\pi}{3} \biggl[ \frac{3}{4\pi} \biggl( \frac{M_\mathrm{limit}}{M_\mathrm{tot}}\biggr) \frac{1}{\tilde\mathfrak{f}_M} \biggr]_\mathrm{eq}^{(n+1)/n} \cdot \tilde\mathfrak{f}_A = \frac{4\pi}{3} \biggl[ \biggl( \frac{P_c}{P_\mathrm{norm}} \biggr)\chi^{3(n+1)/n} \biggr]_\mathrm{eq} \cdot \tilde\mathfrak{f}_A \, ; </math> </td> </tr> </table> </div> and that, specifically in the context of spherically symmetric, pressure-truncated polytropes, we can write … <div align="center" id="PTtable"> <table border="1" align="center" cellpadding="5"> <tr><th align="center" colspan="1"> Structural Form Factors for <font color="red">Pressure-Truncated</font> Polytropes </th></tr> <tr><td align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~\tilde\mathfrak{f}_M</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~=</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>~ \biggl[ - \frac{3\Theta^'}{\xi} \biggr]_{\tilde\xi} </math> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~ ~\frac{\tilde\mathfrak{f}_A - \tilde\theta^{n+1} }{\tilde\mathfrak{f}_W} </math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~=</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>~ \biggl[ \frac{(n+1)}{3\cdot 5} \biggr] \tilde\xi^2 </math> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </div> After plugging these nontrivial expressions for <math>\mathcal{A}</math> and <math>\mathcal{B}</math> into the righthand sides of the above equations for <math>\Pi_\mathrm{ad}</math> and <math>\Chi_\mathrm{ad}</math> and, simultaneously, using the {{ Horedt70 }} detailed force-balanced expressions for <math>r_a</math> and <math>p_a</math> to specify, respectively, <math>~\chi_\mathrm{eq}</math> and <math>P_e/P_\mathrm{norm}</math> in these same equations — see [[SSC/Virial/PolytropesEmbedded/FirstEffortAgain#Summary_2|our accompanying discussion]] — we find that, <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~\Pi_\mathrm{ad}</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~=</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>~\eta_\mathrm{ad} (1 + \eta_\mathrm{ad})^{-4n/(n-3)} \, ,</math> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~\Chi_\mathrm{ad}</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~=</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>~(1 + \eta_\mathrm{ad})^{n/(n-3)} \, ,</math> </td> </tr> </table> </div> where the newly identified, key physical parameter, <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> <math>~\eta_\mathrm{ad} \equiv \frac{b_\mathrm{ad}}{a_\mathrm{ad}}</math> </td> <td align="center"> <math>~=</math> </td> <td align="left"> <math>~\frac{3\cdot 5~ \tilde\theta^{n+1}}{(n+1) \tilde\xi^2 \mathfrak{f}_W} \, .</math> </td> </tr> </table> </div> It is straightforward to show that this more compact pair of expressions for <math>~\Pi_\mathrm{ad}</math> and <math>~\Chi_\mathrm{ad}</math> satisfy the [[#ConciseVirial|virial theorem presented above]].
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