Modeling gas and stellar kinematics in disc galaxies

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics

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1 single page, 1 encapsulated figure. Poster contribution at the Euroconference "The Evolution of Galaxies. I- Observational c

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We present V-band surface photometry and major-axis kinematics of stars and ionized gas of three early-type spiral galaxies, namely NGC 772, NGC 3898 and NGC 7782. For each galaxy we built a self-consistent Jeans model for the stellar kinematics, adopting the light distribution of bulge and disc derived by means of a two-dimensional parametric photometric decomposition. This allowed us to investigate the presence of non-circular gas motions, and derive the mass distribution of luminous and dark matter in these objects. We found that the observed gas rotation corresponds to the circular velocity except for the innermost region (|r|<8") of NGC 3898. This behaviour is quite common, although not ubiquitous, in the few bulge-dominated galaxies, for which dynamical modeling allows the comparison between the gas velocity and the circular speed.

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