Predicting line-of-sight velocity distributions of elliptical galaxies

Details Predicting line-of-sight velocity distributions of elliptical galaxies Predicting line-of-sight velocity distributions of elliptical galaxies

Dec 1994

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 271, 949 (1994)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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We extend the galaxy modelling technique of Binney, Davies & Illingworth to the calculation of the predicted line-of-sight velocity distribution (LOSVD) at each point on the sky. Following Gerhard and van der Marel & Franx we characterize the LOSVD by the coefficients h_j_ in its optimized Gauss-Hermite expansion. We prove some results concerning this expansion and test our technique on pseudo-data. We find that LOSVDs, under the assumption of velocity dispersion isotropy, can be accurately predicted out to two effective radii provided that the galaxy has inclination angle i ~> 70^deg^.

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