Bibcode
Falcón-Barroso, J.; Bacon, R.; Bureau, M.; Cappellari, M.; Davies, R. L.; Emsellem, E.; Krajnović, D.; Kuntschner, H.; McDermid, R.; Peletier, R. F.; de Zeeuw, P. T.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomische Nachrichten, Vol.325, Issue 2, p.92-95
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2004
Citations
9
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7
Description
Kinematic and population studies show that bulges are generally
rotationally flattened systems similar to low-luminosity ellipticals.
However, observations with state-of-the-art integral field
spectrographs, such as SAURON, indicate that the situation is much more
complex, and allow us to investigate phenomena such as triaxiality,
kinematic decoupling and population substructure, and to study their
connection to current formation and evolution scenarios for bulges of
early-type galaxies. We present the examples of two S0 bulges from
galaxies in our sample of nearby galaxies: one that shows all the
properties expected from classical bulges (NGC 5866), and another case
that presents kinematic features appropriate for barred disk galaxies
(NGC 7332).