A SAURON study of stars and gas in Sa bulges

Abstract

We present results from our ongoing effort to understand the morphological and kinematical properties of early-type galaxies using the integral-field spectrograph SAURON. We discuss the relation between the stellar and gas morphology and kinematics in our sub-sample of 24 representative Sa spiral bulges. We focus on the frequency of kinematically decoupled components and on the presence of star formation in circumnuclear rings.

arXiv comment6 pages, 3 figures; To appear in the proceedings of the "Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies" conference held in Terschelling, Netherlands, July 2005, ed. R. de Jong. A high resolution version is available at http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~jfalcon/JFB_terschelling.pdf.gz

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