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GalPaK3D: A BAYESIAN PARAMETRIC TOOL FOR EXTRACTING MORPHOKINEMATICS OF GALAXIES FROM 3D DATA

  • Authors: N. Bouché, H. Carfantan, I. Schroetter, L. Michel-Dansac, and T. Contini

2015 The Astronomical Journal 150 92.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Relative error ﹩\delta p/p﹩—defined as ﹩({p}_{\mathrm{fit}}-{p}_{\mathrm{in}})/{p}_{\mathrm{in}}﹩—for the parameters ﹩{R}_{1/2}﹩ (top) and inclination i (bottom), as a function of seeing, redshift, inclination, and size-to-PSF ratio ﹩{R}_{1/2}/{R}_{\mathrm{PSF}}﹩ (from left to right). The curves with increasing thickness correspond to subsamples with different SB levels from SB ﹩\lt \;2\times {10}^{-17}﹩, ﹩2\times {10}^{-17}\;\lt ﹩ SB ﹩\lt \;5\times {10}^{-17}﹩, ﹩5\times {10}^{-17}\;\lt ﹩ SB ﹩\lt \;1\times {10}^{-16}﹩, SB ﹩\gt \;1\times {10}^{-16}﹩ erg s−1 cm−2 arcsec−2, respectively, where the zero point (dotted line) has been offset for clarity purposes. SB is the observed surface brightness within the observed half-light radius ﹩{\mathrm{SB}}_{1/2,\mathrm{obs}}﹩ times the seeing-to-size ratio ﹩{R}_{1/2}/{R}_{\mathrm{PSF}}﹩, as in Figure 6. The data points represent the median, and the size of the error bars represents the standard deviation for each of the subsamples. One sees that the GalPaK3D algorithm recovers the morphological parameters irrespectively of seeing, redshift, and/or intrinsic size.

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