The Mice at Play in the CALIFA Survey a Case Study of a Gas-Rich Major Merger Between first Passage and Coalescence
A&A 567, A132 (2014) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321624 & c ESO 2014 Astrophysics The Mice at play in the CALIFA survey A case study of a gas-rich major merger between first passage and coalescence Vivienne Wild1,2, Fabian Rosales-Ortega3,4, Jesus Falcón-Barroso5,6, Rubén García-Benito7, Anna Gallazzi11,12, Rosa M. González Delgado7, Simona Bekeraite˙8, Anna Pasquali10, Peter H. Johansson13 , Begoña García Lorenzo5,6, Glenn van de Ven14, Milena Pawlik1, Enrique Peréz7, Ana Monreal-Ibero8,15 , Mariya Lyubenova14, Roberto Cid Fernandes16, Jairo Méndez-Abreu1, Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros5,6 , Carolina Kehrig7, Jorge Iglesias-Páramo7,17, Dominik J. Bomans18,19, Isabel Márquez7, Benjamin D. Johnson20, Robert C. Kennicutt21, Bernd Husemann9,8, Damian Mast23, Sebastian F. Sánchez7,17,22, C. Jakob Walcher8,JoãoAlves24, Alfonso L. Aguerri5,6, Almudena Alonso Herrero25, Joss Bland-Hawthorn26, Cristina Catalán-Torrecilla27 , Estrella Florido28, Jean Michel Gomes29, Knud Jahnke14, Á.R. López-Sánchez31,32, Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres1, Raffaella A. Marino29, Esther Mármol-Queraltó2, Patrick Olden1, Ascensión del Olmo7, Polychronis Papaderos29, Andreas Quirrenbach30, Jose M. Vílchez7, and Bodo Ziegler24 (Affiliations can be found after the references) Received 2 April 2013 / Accepted 27 May 2014 ABSTRACT 11 We present optical integral field spectroscopy (IFS) observations of the Mice, a major merger between two massive (10 M) gas-rich spirals NGC 4676A and B, observed between first passage and final coalescence. The spectra provide stellar and gas kinematics, ionised gas properties, and stellar population diagnostics, over the full optical extent of both galaxies with ∼1.6 kpc spatial resolution. The Mice galaxies provide a perfect case study that highlights the importance of IFS data for improving our understanding of local galaxies.
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