Integral-Field Spectroscopic Surveys of Nearby Early-type Galaxies
Abstract
I briefly review here a few past or on-going surveys of nearby ETGs via integral-field spectroscopy, focusing on their dynamical status, evolution, and stellar/gaseous content.
- Publication:
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Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies
- Pub Date:
- December 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921311022526
- Bibcode:
- 2011IAUS..277...83E
- Keywords:
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- instrumentation: spectrographs;
- surveys;
- galaxies: elliptical and lenticular;
- galaxies: kinematics and dynamics;
- galaxies: evolution;
- galaxies: formation