Bibcode
Falcón-Barroso, Jesús; Peletier, Reynier F.; Emsellem, Eric; Kuntschner, Harald; Fathi, Kambiz; Bureau, Martin; Bacon, Roland; Cappellari, Michele; Copin, Yannick; Davies, Roger L.; de Zeeuw, Tim
Referencia bibliográfica
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 350, Issue 1, pp. 35-46.
Fecha de publicación:
5
2004
Número de citas
70
Número de citas referidas
62
Descripción
We present SAURON integral-field observations of the S0 galaxy NGC 7332.
Existing broad-band ground-based and Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
photometry reveals a double-disc structure and a boxy bulge interpreted
as a bar viewed close to edge-on. The SAURON two-dimensional stellar
kinematic maps confirm the existence of the bar and inner disc but also
uncover the presence of a cold counter-rotating stellar component within
the central 250 pc. The Hβ and [O III] emission line maps show that
the ionized gas has a complex morphology and kinematics, including both
a component counter-rotating with respect to the stars and a fainter
corotating one. Analysis of the absorption line-strength maps show that
NGC 7332 is young everywhere. The presence of a large-scale bar can
explain most of those properties, but the fact that we see a significant
amount of unsettled gas, together with a few peculiar features in the
maps, suggests that NGC 7332 is still evolving. Interactions as well as
bar-driven processes must thus have played an important role in the
formation and evolution of NGC 7332, and presumably of S0 galaxies in
general.