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astro-ph2002
SAURON: Observations of E/S0/Sa galaxies
H. Kuntschner, R. Bacon, M. Bureau +9
We present results from a new and unique integral-field spectrograph, SAURON. It has a large field of view and high throughput and is primarily built for the study of stellar & gas…
astro-ph2002
Two-dimensional kinematics and stellar populations of early-type galaxies: First results from the SAURON survey
Roland Bacon, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari +9
We present the SAURON project, which is aimed at studying the morphology, two-dimensional kinematics and stellar populations of a representative sample of elliptical galaxies and s…
astro-ph2001
Kinemetry: quantifying kinematic maps
Y. Copin, R. Bacon, M. Bureau +7
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 th…