2D modelling of the light distribution of early-type galaxies in a volume-limited sample - I. Simulations with artificial data

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Oct 2001

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 326, Issue 4, pp. 1508-1516.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Galaxies: Elliptical And Lenticular, Cd, Galaxies: Fundamental Parameters, Galaxies: Photometry, Galaxies: Structure

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This paper is the first of two dedicated to the application of a two-dimensional (2D) fit to the light distribution of 73 early-type galaxies belonging to the Virgo and Fornax clusters, a sample of which is 80 per cent complete, volume and magnitude limited down to MB=-17.3, and highly homogeneous. Two empirical models of the surface-brightness distribution of the early-type galaxies have been tested: the first uses a single spheroid represented by the r1/n Sersic law, while the second is characterized by two components, `bulge' and `disc', by means of the (r1/n+exp) laws. The χ2 fitting routine (MINUIT), used to fit the 2D light distribution of real galaxies, is tested here on artificial galaxy images that were built with structural parameters chosen randomly from a large fixed interval. In this paper we present the properties of the two models, describe the minimization technique, and discuss the results of the tests of the 2D fit obtained from simulated artificial galaxies. By exploiting these tests we were able better to constrain the errors affecting the structural parameters, and the strategies that should be adopted to get the best fit.

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