SAURON Observations of Disks in Spheroids
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
The panoramic integral-field spectrograph SAURON is currently being used to map the stellar kinematics, gaseous kinematics, and stellar populations of a large number of early-type galaxies and bulges. Here, we describe SAURON observations of cold stellar disks embedded in spheroids (NGC3384, NGC4459, NGC4526), we illustrate the kinematics and ionization state of large-scale gaseous disks (NGC4278, NGC7742), and we show preliminary comparisons of SAURON data with barred galaxy N-body simulations (NGC3623).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0204039,
title = {SAURON Observations of Disks in Spheroids},
author = {M. Bureau and R. Bacon and E. Emsellem and M. Cappellari and E. K. Verolme and P. T. de Zeeuw and Y. Copin and R. L. Davies and R. McDermid and H. Kuntschner and B. W. Miller and R. F. Peletier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0204039},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
8 pages including 5 figures. To appear in Galaxies: The Third Dimension, eds. M. Rosado, L. Binnette, & L. Arias (ASP: San Francisco)