Planetary Nebulae as Mass Tracers of their Parent Galaxies: Biases in the estimate of the kinematical quantities
Napolitano, Nicola R; Arnaboldi, Magda; Freeman, Kenneth; Capaccioli, Massimo
Description
Multi-object and multi-fiber spectrographs on 4 and 8 m telescopes make it possible to use extragalactic planetary nebulae (PNe) in the outer halos of early-type galaxies as kinematical tracers, where classical techniques based on integrated stellar light fail. Until now, published PNe radial velocity samples are small, with only a few tens of radial velocity measurements (except for a few cases like NGC 5128 or M 31), causing uncertainties in the mass and angular momentum estimates based on...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2001 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/92626 |
Source: | Astronomy and Astrophysics |
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