The Kinematics of the Planetary Nebula Population in M94

Details The Kinematics of the Planetary Nebula Population in M94 The Kinematics of the Planetary Nebula Population in M94

2000-03-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003281v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 6 Postscript figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

The planetary nebula populations of relatively nearby galaxies can be easily observed and provide both a distance estimate and a tool with which dynamical information can be obtained. Usually the requisite radial velocities are obtained by multi-object spectroscopy once the planetary nebulae have been located by direct imaging. Here we report on a technique for measuring planetary nebula kinematics using the double-beam ISIS spectrograph at the William Herschel Telescope in a novel slitless mode, which enables the detection and radial velocity measurements to be combined into a single step. The results on our first target, the Sab galaxy NGC 4736, allow the velocity dispersion of the stellar population in a disk galaxy to be traced out to four scale lengths for the first time and are consistent with a simple isothermal sheet model.

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