Kinemetry: quantifying kinematic maps
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We describe a new technique, kinemetry, to quantify kinematic maps of early-type galaxies in an efficient way. We present the first applications to velocity fields obtained with the integral-field spectrograph SAURON.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0109085,
title = {Kinemetry: quantifying kinematic maps},
author = {Y. Copin and R. Bacon and M. Bureau and R. L. Davies and E. Emsellem and H. Kuntschner and B. Miller and R. Peletier and E. K. Verolme and P. T. de Zeeuw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0109085},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, uses edp-conf.cls. To appear in "SF2A-2001: Semaine de l'Astrophysique Francaise", Eds. Societe Francaise d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, to be published by EdP-Sciences, Conference Series