Internal Kinematics and Stellar Populations of Early-type Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster

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  • Bettina Gerken
  • Harald Kuntschner
  • Roger L. Davies
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We present a study of the internal kinematics and stellar populations of early-type galaxies in the Fornax cluster based on integral-field spectroscopic observations with Gemini South GMOS and VLT-VIMOS. Seven galaxies in a luminosity range of -21.3≤MB≤-17.7 have been observed with these integral field units (IFU). As first results, velocity and line strength maps are presented for NGC1427 and NGC1419.

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تاریخ انتشار 2005