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Stellar dynamics of galactic nuclei with TIGER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Eric Emsellem
Affiliation:
Sterrewacht Leiden, The Netherlands
Roland Bacon
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Lyon, France
Guy Monnet
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Lyon, France

Abstract

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We conducted an observational program using the TIGER integral field spectrograph to study the dynamical structure of nearby galactic nuclei. We already obtained new original results on three of the best ”Black Holes Candidates”: M 32, M 31 and M 104. Their nuclei exhibit complex morphologies and unusual dynamical properties such as: asymmetries, anisotropy, triaxiality which would have been impossible to detect with a ”classical“ spectrograph.

Type
3. Integral Field Spectrographs and Spectrometers
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1995

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