Fast and slow rotators: the build-up of the red sequence

Bibcode
2008IAUS..245...11E
DOI
10.1017/S1743921308017158
Emsellem, Eric; Cappellari, Michele; Krajnović, Davor; van de Ven, Glenn; Bacon, R.; Bureau, M.; Davies, Roger L.; de Zeeuw, P. T.; Falcón-Barroso, Jesús; Kuntschner, Harald; McDermid, Richard M.; Peletier, Reynier F.; Sarzi, Marc; van den Bosch, Remco C. E.
Bibliographical reference

Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 245, p. 11-14

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7
2008
Number of authors
14
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
1
Refereed citations
1
Description
Using the unique dataset obtained within the course of the SAURON project, a radically new view of the structure, dynamics and stellar populations of early-type galaxies has emerged. We show that galaxies come in two broad flavours (slow and fast rotators), depending on whether or not they exhibit clear large-scale rotation, as indicated via a robust measure of the specific angular momentum of baryons. This property is also linked with other physical characteristics of early-type galaxies, such as: the presence of dynamically decoupled cores, orbital structure and anisotropy, stellar populations and dark matter content. I here report on the observed link between this baryonic angular momentum and a mass sequence, and how this uniquely relates to the building of the red sequence via dissipative/dissipationless mergers and secular evolution.
Type
Non-refereed
Galaxies
Stellar dynamics

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