Dynamical Modeling of SAURON Galaxies
Abstract
We describe our program for the dynamical modeling of early-type galaxies observed with the panoramic integral-field spectrograph SAURON. We are using Schwarzschild's numerical orbit superposition method to reproduce in detail all kinematical and photometric observables, and recover the intrinsic orbital structure of the galaxies. Since catastrophes are the most prominent features in the orbital observables, two-dimensional kinematical coverage is essential to constrain the dynamical models.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0302274,
title = {Dynamical Modeling of SAURON Galaxies},
author = {M. Cappellari and R. C. E. van den Bosch and E. K. Verolme and R. Bacon and M. Bureau and Y. Copin and R. L. Davies and E. Emsellem and D. Krajnovic and H. Kuntschner and R. McDermid and B. W. Miller and R. F. Peletier and P. T. de Zeeuw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0302274},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX. Published in 2003, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 1: Coevolution of Black Holes and Galaxies, ed. L. C. Ho (Pasadena: Carnegie Observatories, http://www.ociw.edu/ociw/symposia/series/symposium1/proceedings.html)