Kinematics

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  • Puech et al.
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2881
  • Conference proceeding on how the MW is special in the sense that it forms little stars and therefore cannot have undergone a merger for a long time.

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  • Yang et al.
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.2305
  • large project with the IFU-mode of FLAMES at the VLT.
  • z=1 galaxies show more frequently “strange” kinematics than locally.

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  • Lee at al.
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1232
  • The GCs around Andromeda rotate.
  • GCs can be “friendless”, meaning they have no neighbors with similar kinematics. In addition they look at various subsamples depending e.g. on metallicity and brightness.

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  • Nesvadba et al.
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1491
  • the title says it.
  • two blobs rotating around each other without velocity difference over each of them.
  • similar to UM461? but bigger.

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  • Grillo et al.
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0882
  • Combining gravitational lensing and galaxy dynamics (velocity dispersion as a funciton of radius in ellipticals) as a new and independant (!) method of measuring the geometry of the universe.
  • Way cool, if it ever gets on par in accuracy with the other methods.

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  • conference proceeding by F. Combes
  • http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.3694
  • nearby galaxies
  • molecular chemistry coupled to dynamics via shocks, bars, galactic outflows.

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