A MASS ESTIMATE FOR THE COMPANION TO THE CARTWHEEL GALAXY
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 201:3 (1982) P69-&
OBSERVATIONS OF THE DYNAMICS OF 8 EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 194:3 (1981) 879-902
THE METALLICITIES, VELOCITY DISPERSIONS AND TRUE SHAPES OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 196:2 (1981) 381-395
Dynamical modeling of SAURON galaxies
Proceedings of IUTAM Symposia and Summer Schools IUTAM 3
Abstract:
We describe our program for the dynamical modeling of early-type galaxies observed with the panoramic integral-field spectrograph SAURON. We are using Schwarzschild's numerical orbit superposition method to reproduce in detail all kinematical and photometric observables, and recover the intrinsic orbital structure of the galaxies. Since catastrophes are the most prominent features in the orbital observables, two-dimensional kinematical coverage is essential to constrain the dynamical models.