Stellar kinematics across the Hubble sequence in the CALIFA survey:
  General properties and aperture corrections
  We present the stellar kinematic maps of a large sample of galaxies from the
integral-field spectroscopic survey CALIFA. The sample comprises 300 galaxies
displaying a wide range of morphologies across the Hubble sequence, from
ellipticals to late-type spirals. This dataset allows us to homogeneously
extract stellar kinematics up to several effective radii. In this paper, we
describe the level of completeness of this subset of galaxies with respect to
the full CALIFA sample, as well as the virtues and limitations of the kinematic
extraction compared to other well-known integral-field surveys. In addition, we
provide averaged integrated velocity dispersion radial profiles for different
galaxy types, which are particularly useful to apply aperture corrections for
single aperture measurements or poorly resolved stellar kinematics of
high-redshift sources. The work presented in this paper sets the basis for the
study of more general properties of galaxies that will be explored in
subsequent papers of the survey.
