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Kinemetry: quantifying kinematic maps

Y. Copin, R. Bacon, M. Bureau, R. L. Davies, E. Emsellem, H. Kuntschner, B. Miller, R. Peletier, E. K. Verolme, P. T. de Zeeuw

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0109085

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.

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