The PN.S Elliptical Galaxy Survey: Data Reduction, Planetary Nebula Catalog, and Basic Dynamics for NGC 3379

Date

2007

Authors

Douglas, Nigel G
Napolitano, N. R.
Romanowsky, A. J.
Coccato, L
Kuijken, Konrad
Merrifield, M R
Arnaboldi, Magda
Gerhard, Ortwin
Freeman, Kenneth
Merrett, H R

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We present results from Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (PN.S) observations of the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379 and a description of the data reduction pipeline. We detected 214 planetary nebulae, of which 191 are ascribed to NGC 3379 and 23 to the companion

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Keywords: Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: individual (NGC 3379); Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: structure; Planetary nebulae: general

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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