The SAURON project--IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

Cappellari, Michele; Bacon, Roland; Bureau, Martin; Damen, Maaike; L. Davies, R.; T. de Zeeuw, P.; Emsellem, Éric; Falcón‐Barroso, J.; Krajnović, D.; Kuntschner, H.; M. McDermid, Richard; F. Peletier, R.; Sarzi, M.; C. E. van den Bosch, Remco; van de Ven, Glenn

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09981.x

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The SAURON project--IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society • Feb 3, 2006

Authors:

Michele Cappellari

Roland Bacon

Martin Bureau

Abstract

We investigate the well-known correlations between the dynamical mass-to-light ratio (M/L) and other global observables of elliptical (E) and lenticular (S0) galaxies. We construct two-integral Jeans and three-integral Schwarzschild dynamical models for a sample of 25 E/S0 galaxies with SAURON integ...

Subject

Physics

Virial mass

Virial theorem

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