H. Plana et J. Boulesteix, EXTENDED IONIZED-GAS IN ELLIPTIC GALAXIES .1. MULTICOMPONENTS IN NGC-1052 AND NGC-7332, Astronomy and astrophysics, 307(2), 1996, pp. 391-402
A number of elliptical galaxies possess an extended gaseous disk usual
ly detected in [OIII] 5007 Angstrom, H alpha or [NII] 6583 Angstrom em
ission lines. 3-D scanning Perot-Fabry observations of two of these ob
jects, NGC 1052 and NGC 7332, show multiple profiles of the ionized fa
int and extended gas. We separate clearly two extended gaseous compone
nts in both galaxies where gas kinematics is largely decoupled from st
ellar one. Several gas systems, kinematically decoupled and possibly l
ocated in different basic planes of the ellipsoids, could be related t
o different external origins. We used gas kinematics to constraint the
triaxial shape of these galaxies. Both present a typical gaseous disk
which may lie in an allowed preferred plane of the ellipsoid. But the
re is no clear coherence between dynamical parameters derived separate
ly from the gaseous disks. Different hypothesis, in which one componen
t is not definitively stable, are presented. They suppose that success
ive mergers occurred within a relatively small time scale.