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

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; Noordermeer, E; Capaccioli, M

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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

Publisher

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