The SAURON Survey of Early-Type Galaxies in the Nearby Universe

Peletier, R. F.; Bacon, R.; Bureau, M.; Cappellari, M.; Copin, Y.; Davies, R. L.; Emsellem, E.; Falcon-Barroso, J.; Krajnovic, D.; Kuntschner, H.; McDermid, R.; Miller, B. W.; Verolme, E. K.; Wernli, F.; de Zeeuw, P. T.
Bibliographical reference

The Newsletter of the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING Newsl.), issue no. 5, p. 5-9.

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2001
Number of authors
15
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0
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Description
The aim of the SAURON collaboration, and the reason for building the instrument, is to study a representative sample of nearby ellipticals, lenticulars and bulges of early-type spirals, in order to measure their intrinsic shapes, velocity and metallicity distributions, and to gain insight into the relation between their stellar and gaseous.