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Integral field spectroscopy of 23 spiral bulges

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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES
Volume 160, Issue 1, Pages 76-86

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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/431483

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galaxies : kinematics and dynamics; galaxies : spiral; stellar dynamics; techniques : spectroscopic

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We have obtained integral-field spectroscopy for 23 spiral bulges using INTEGRAL on the William Herschel Telescope and SPIRAL on the Anglo-Australian Telescope. This is the first two-dimensional survey directed solely at the bulges of spiral galaxies. Eleven galaxies of the sample do not have previous measurements of the stellar velocity dispersion (sigma(*)). These data are designed to complement our Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph program for estimating black hole masses in the range 10(6)-10(8) M-circle dot using gas kinematics from nucleated disks. These observations will serve to derive the stellar dynamical bulge properties using the traditional Mg b and Ca II triplets. We use both cross-correlation and maximum penalized likelihood to determine projected sigma(*) in these systems and present radial velocity fields, major axis rotation curves, curves of growth, and sigma(*) fields. Using cross-correlation to extract the low-order two-dimensional stellar dynamics we generally see coherent radial rotation and irregular velocity dispersion fields suggesting that sigma(*) is a nontrivial parameter to estimate.

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