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Probing the stellar populations of early-type galaxies: the SAURON survey

Eric Emsellem, Roger Davies, Richard McDermid, Harald Kuntschner, Reynier Peletier, Roland Bacon, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, Yannick Copin, Bryan Miller, Ellen Verolme, Tim de Zeeuw

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0202500

Abstract

The SAURON project will deliver two-dimensional spectroscopic data of a sample of nearby early-type galaxies with unprecedented quality. In this paper, we focus on the mapping of their stellar populations using the SAURON data, and present some preliminary results on a few prototypical cases.

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