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SAURON Observations of Disks in Spheroids

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

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0204039

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).

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