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The 37 pages that link to Virial theorem, each with the reason it gives.

• Dark matterRelated: It lets astronomers estimate cluster masses from galaxy motions.

• Molecular cloudRelated: Cloud virial estimates help assess whether gravity can bind a cloud against internal motions.

• Hydrostatic equilibriumRelated: It describes broader gravitational support in systems that need not be in exact hydrostatic equilibrium.

• Galaxy clusterRelated: It links cluster motions and temperature to the system’s gravitational binding.

• Dark matter haloRelated: It helps describe how a halo's gravity balances its internal motions.

• Gravitational potentialRelated: Gravitational potential energy enters estimates of equilibrium in star clusters and other bound systems.

• Kinetic theory of gasesRelated: Its molecular form connects particle motion and intermolecular forces to pressure.

• Local GroupRelated: It connects galaxy motions to the mass and dynamical state inferred for the group.

• Gravitational collapseRelated: It connects a collapsing cloud’s gravitational energy to its motions and internal support.

• Jeans instabilityRelated: It offers an energy-based perspective on when gravity can bind a gas region.

• Peculiar velocityRelated: It links random internal galaxy motions to the gravitationally bound structures that depart from Hubble flow.

• Gravitational instabilityRelated: It helps assess whether a gravitating cloud has enough internal motion to resist collapse.

• Stellar structureRelated: It links gravitational contraction to the high temperatures inside a star.

• Stellar massRelated: It links a star’s gravitational binding to the motions and pressure of its material.

• Gravitational binding energyRelated: It relates a system’s total energy to its gravitational potential energy in equilibrium.

• Equipartition theoremRelated: It generalizes energy-sharing relations beyond purely quadratic classical terms.

• Virgo ClusterRelated: Galaxy motions in Virgo provide a way to infer the cluster’s total mass.

• Tully–Fisher relationRelated: It helps explain why greater galaxy mass and rotation speed accompany greater luminosity.

• Coma ClusterRelated: Cluster motions can be used with this relation to estimate Coma's total mass.

• Galaxy groupRelated: Astronomers use it to infer group masses from member motions.

• Fritz ZwickyRelated: Zwicky used galaxy-cluster motions and the theorem to estimate cluster mass.

• Star clusterRelated: It helps determine whether a cluster is dynamically bound.

• Galactic haloRelated: It links a halo’s gravitational binding to the motions of its stars and gas.

• Stellar dynamicsRelated: It links stellar speeds to a system’s gravitational binding and helps estimate masses.

• Gravitationally bound systemRelated: It connects the motions of a system’s components to the gravity holding them together.

• Omega CentauriRelated: Stellar speeds can be used with this relation to estimate the cluster’s mass.

• Stellar coreRelated: It helps explain why gravitational contraction heats stellar interiors.

• Broad-line regionRelated: It underpins black-hole mass estimates from gas speed and reverberation radius.

• Kelvin–Helmholtz mechanismRelated: It explains why contraction heats a body while allowing roughly half the released energy to be radiated.

• Abell 1689Related: Cluster mass estimates can compare dynamical motions with lensing-based measurements.

• Faber–Jackson relationRelated: It helps explain why galaxy luminosity can scale with stellar speeds.

• Centaurus A/M83 GroupRelated: It provides a framework for estimating the mass of gravitationally bound galaxy systems.

• Galaxy rotation problemRelated: It helps estimate masses of gravitationally bound systems from their motions.

• Astronomical masses and mass distributionsRelated: It lets stellar and galactic motions constrain the mass producing their gravity.

• Galaxy groups and clustersRelated: It connects member-galaxy motions and gas temperatures to cluster mass.

• Sandra FaberRelated: It helps connect stellar motions in galaxies to their gravitational binding and mass.

• Westerhout 40Related: Applying it to cloud structures helps assess whether parts of Westerhout 40 are gravitationally bound.