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astro-ph2008★ 219 cited

Kinematic properties of early-type galaxy haloes using planetary nebulae

L. Coccato, O. Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi +11

We present new planetary nebulae (PNe) positions, radial velocities, and magnitudes for 6 early-type galaxies obtained with the Planetary Nebulae Spectrograph, their two-dimensiona…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

Probing the kinematics of early-type galaxy halos using planetary nebulae

L. Coccato, O. Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi +11

We present first results of a study of the halo kinematics for a sample of early type galaxies using planetary nebulae (PNe) as kinematical tracers. PNe allow to extend up to sever…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

Reality of Moving Groups in the Galaxy

G. M. De Silva, K. C. Freeman, J. Bland-Hawthorn +1

The existence of old dispersed stellar groups within the Milky Way disk is still controversial. Are they the debris of ancient star-forming aggregates, or short-lived artifacts of…

astro-ph2008★ 135 cited

The PN.S Elliptical Galaxy Survey: the dark matter in NGC 4494

N. R. Napolitano, A. J. Romanowsky, L. Coccato +12

We present new Planetary Nebula Spectrograph observations of the ordinary elliptical galaxy NGC 4494, resulting in positions and velocities of 255 PNe out to 7 effective radii (25…

astro-ph2008★ 105 cited

Estimation of the Tilt of the Stellar Velocity Ellipsoid from RAVE and Implications for Mass Models

A. Siebert, O. Bienaymé, J. Binney +16

We present a measure of the inclination of the velocity ellipsoid at 1 kpc below the Galactic plane using a sample of red clump giants from the RAVE DR2 release. We find that the v…

astro-ph2008★ 70 cited

Diffuse interstellar bands in RAVE Survey spectra

U. Munari, L. Tomasella, M. Fiorucci +19

We have used spectra of hot stars from the RAVE Survey in order to investigate the visibility and properties of five diffuse interstellar bands previously reported in the literatur…

astro-ph2008★ 273 cited

The Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE): second data release

T. Zwitter, A. Siebert, U. Munari +51

We present the second data release of the Radial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), an ambitious spectroscopic survey to measure radial velocities (RVs) and stellar atmosphere parameters…

astro-ph2008★ 88 cited

Fashionably Late? Building up the Milky Way's Inner Halo

H. L. Morrison, A. Helmi, J. Sun +9

Using a sample of 248 metal-poor stars (RR Lyraes, red giants and RHB stars) which is remarkable for the accuracy of its 6-D kinematical data, we find a new component for the local…

astro-ph2008★ 78 cited

Galactic kinematics with RAVE data: I. The distribution of stars towards the Galactic poles

L. Veltz, O. Bienaymé, K. C. Freeman +16

We analyze the distribution of G and K type stars towards the Galactic poles using RAVE and ELODIE radial velocities, 2MASS photometric star counts, and UCAC2 proper motions. The c…

astro-ph2008★ 21 cited

Expansion velocities and core masses of bright planetary nebulae in the Virgo cluster

Magda Arnaboldi, Michelle Doherty, Ortwin Gerhard +5

The line-of-sight velocities and [OIII] 5007 AA expansion velocities are measured for 11 planetary nebulae (PNs) in the Virgo cluster core, at 15 Mpc distance, with the FLAMES spec…