A SAURON look at galaxy bulges

Details A SAURON look at galaxy bulges A SAURON look at galaxy bulges

2003-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311078v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publishing in AN (refereed conf. proc. of the Euro3D Science workshop, IoA Cambridge, May 200

Scientific paper

10.1002/asna.200310182

Kinematic and population studies show that bulges are generally rotationally flattened systems similar to low-luminosity ellipticals. However, observations with state-of-the-art integral field spectrographs, such as SAURON, indicate that the situation is much more complex, and allow us to investigate phenomena such as triaxiality, kinematic decoupling and population substructure, and to study their connection to current formation and evolution scenarios for bulges of early-type galaxies. We present the examples of two S0 bulges from galaxies in our sample of nearby galaxies: one that shows all the properties expected from classical bulges (NGC5866), and another case that presents kinematic features appropriate for barred disk galaxies (NGC7332).

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