Kinematic properties of early-type galaxy haloes using planetary nebulae

2008/11/19 by L. Coccato, O. Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi +11 · 219 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Emission nebula #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Galaxy #Kinematics #Planetary nebula #Radial velocity #Spectrograph #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Velocity dispersion #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.14417.x

published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 394(3), 1249-1283 (Oxford University Press) · 36 pages, 21 figures, revised version for MNRAS

arxiv created 2008/11/19 · openalex publication_date 2009/02/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present new planetary nebulae (PNe) positions, radial velocities and magnitudes for six early-type galaxies obtained with the Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph (PNS), along with derived two-dimensional velocity and velocity dispersion fields, and the α p

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