Falcón-Barroso, J.; Lyubenova, M.; van de Ven, G.; Mendez-Abreu, J.; Aguerri, J. A. L.; García-Lorenzo, B.; Bekeraité, S.; Sánchez, S. F.; Husemann, B.; García-Benito, R.; Mast, D.; Walcher, C. J.; Zibetti, S.; Barrera-Ballesteros, J. K.; Galbany, L.; Sánchez-Blázquez, P.; Singh, R.; van den Bosch, R. C. E.; Wild, V.; Zhu, L.; Bland-Hawthorn, J.; Cid Fernandes, R.; de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.; Gallazzi, A.; González Delgado, R. M.; Marino, R. A.; Márquez, I.; Pérez, E.; Pérez, I.; Roth, M. M.; Rosales-Ortega, F. F.; Ruiz-Lara, T.; Wisotzki, L.; Ziegler, B.; Califa Collaboration
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 597, id.A48, 52 pp.
Description
We present the stellar kinematic maps of a large sample of galaxies from
the integral-field spectroscopic survey CALIFA. The sample comprises 300
galaxies displaying a wide range of morphologies across the Hubble
sequence, from ellipticals to late-type spirals. This dataset allows us
to homogeneously extract stellar kinematics up to several effective
radii. In this paper, we describe the level of completeness of this
subset of galaxies withrespect to the full CALIFA sample, as well as the
virtues and limitations of the kinematic extraction compared to other
well-known integral-field surveys. In addition, we provide averaged
integrated velocity dispersion radial profiles for different galaxy
types, which are particularly useful to apply aperture corrections for
single aperture measurements or poorly resolved stellar kinematics of
high-redshift sources. The work presented in this paper sets the basis
for the study of more general properties of galaxies that will be
explored in subsequent papers of the survey.
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