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Deprojecting Sérsic Profiles for Arbitrary Triaxial Shapes: Robust Measures of Intrinsic and Projected Galaxy Sizes

  • Authors: Glenn van de Ven, and Arjen van der Wel

2021 The Astrophysical Journal 914 45.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Deprojected Sérsic profile. The enclosed mass M(<r) normalized by the total mass Mtot, within a spherical radius r normalized by the scale length a. As indicated, the colors represent different Sérsic indices n and the line styles different intrinsic shapes given by the intrinsic axis ratios p = b/a and q = c/a. The top panel is for spheroidal shapes, either oblate axisymmetric (q < 1) or prolate axisymmetric (q > 1), and the bottom panel for fully triaxial shapes.

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