Planetary nebula spectrograph survey of s0 galaxy kinematics - ii. Clues to the origins of s0 galaxies

Cortesi, A.; Merrifield, M R; Coccato, L; Arnaboldi, Magda; Gerhard, Ortwin; Bamford, Steven P.; Napolitano, N. R.; Romanowsky, A J; Douglas, N; Kuijken, Konrad; Capaccioli, M; Freeman, Kenneth; Saha , K; Chies-Santos, A L

Planetary nebula spectrograph survey of s0 galaxy kinematics - ii. Clues to the origins of s0 galaxies

Date

2013

Authors

Cortesi, A.

Merrifield, M R

Coccato, L

Arnaboldi, Magda

Gerhard, Ortwin

Bamford, Steven P.

Napolitano, N. R.

Romanowsky, A J

Douglas, N

Kuijken, Konrad

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The stellar kinematics of the spheroids and discs of S0 galaxies contain clues to their formation histories. Unfortunately, it is difficult to disentangle the two components and to recover their stellar kinematics in the faint outer parts of the galaxies