The Relationship Between the Sersic Law Profiles Measured Along the Major and Minor Axes of Elliptical Galaxies

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2003-09-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0309589v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.347:824,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, 14 figures, LaTex with mn2e.cls. Accepted to MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07254.x

In this paper we discuss the reason why the parameters of the Sersic model best-fitting the major axis light profile of elliptical galaxies can differ significantly from those derived for the minor axis profile. We show that this discrepancy is a natural consequence of the fact that the isophote eccentricity varies with the radius of the isophote and present a mathematical transformation that allows the minor axis Sersic model to be calculated from the major axis model, provided that the elliptical isophotes are aligned and concentric and that their eccentricity can be represented by a well behaved, though quite general, function of the radius. When there is no variation in eccentricity only the effective radius changes in the Sersic model, while for radial-dependent eccentricity the transformation which allows the minor axis Sersic model to be calculated from the major axis model is given by the Lerch Phi transcendental function. The proposed transformation was tested using photometric data for 28 early-type galaxies.

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