Probing the stellar populations of early-type galaxies: the SAURON survey
Eric Emsellem, Roger Davies, Richard McDermid, Harald Kuntschner, Reynier Peletier, Roland Bacon, Martin Bureau, Michele Cappellari, Yannick Copin, Bryan Miller, Ellen Verolme, Tim de Zeeuw
Abstract
The SAURON project will deliver two-dimensional spectroscopic data of a sample of nearby early-type galaxies with unprecedented quality. In this paper, we focus on the mapping of their stellar populations using the SAURON data, and present some preliminary results on a few prototypical cases.