Internal kinematics of galaxies: 3D spectroscopy on Russian 6m telescope

Abstract

We consider some results on the gas and stellar kinematics of nearby galaxies recently obtained on the 6m telescope of SAO RAS using panoramic spectroscopy methods. The circumnuclear regions of the galaxies were observed with integral-field spectrograph MPFS. The large-scale ionized gas kinematics was studied with the scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer (FPI) in the multi-mode focal reducer SCORPIO. The main attention is devoted to kinematically decoupled regions in the galaxies: bars, spirals, polar disks and rings. © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.