Stellar population gradients in bulges along the Hubble sequence - I. The data

This is the first paper presenting our long-term project aimed at studying the nature of bulges through analyzing their stellar population gradients. We present deep spectroscopic observations along the minor axis and the data reduction for a sample of 32 bulges of edge-on spiral galaxies. We explai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gorgas García, Francisco Javier, Jablonka, P., Goudfrooij, P.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/51837
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51837
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:52
Early-type galaxies
Line-strength gradients
Dynamically hot galaxies
Spiral galaxies
Star-formation
Spectrophotometric standards
Different environments
Structural-properties
Velocity dispersions
Lenticular galaxies
Astrofísica
Astronomía (Física)
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Sumario:This is the first paper presenting our long-term project aimed at studying the nature of bulges through analyzing their stellar population gradients. We present deep spectroscopic observations along the minor axis and the data reduction for a sample of 32 bulges of edge-on spiral galaxies. We explain in detail our procedures for measuring their dynamical parameters (rotation curves and velocity dispersion profiles) and line-strength indices, including the conversion to the Lick/IDS system. Tables giving the values of the dynamical parameters and line-strength indices at each galactocentric radius are presented (in electronic form) for each galaxy of the sample. The derived line-strength gradients from this dataset will be analyzed in a forthcoming paper to set constraints on the different scenarios for the formation of the bulges.