Kinemetry: quantifying kinematic maps

2001/09/06 by Y. Copin, R. Bacon, Roland Bacon +22 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0109085

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

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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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