Image Details

Choose export citation format:

Everything Every Band All at Once. I. A Global Morphology Catalog in A2744 Based on UNCOVER/MegaScience

  • Authors: Yunchong Zhang, Tim B. Miller, Sedona H. Price, Katherine A. Suess, Rachel Bezanson, David J. Setton, Joel Leja, Katherine E. Whitaker, Jenny E. Greene, Robert Feldmann, Seiji Fujimoto, Themiya Nanayakkara, Gabriel Brammer, Sam E. Cutler, Pratika Dayal, Anna de Graaff, Yoshinobu Fudamoto, Lukas J. Furtak, Andy D. Goulding, Gourav Khullar, Ivo Labbe, Brian Lorenz, Danilo Marchesini, Abby Mintz, Lamiya A. Mowla, Adam Muzzin, Erica J. Nelson, Richard Pan, Natalia Porraz Barrera, Edward N. Taylor, Arjen van der Wel, Bingjie Wang, 冰洁 王, John R. Weaver, Christina C. Williams

Yunchong Zhang et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 4.

Recovery tests in F444W: the Sérsic parameter fractional error (fitted value minus the true value, normalized by the true value) versus true magnitude (first column from the left) or SNR (second column from the left). From top to bottom, each row shows the fractional error on flux, half-light radius, Sérsic index, and ellipticity. The accuracy of recovered Sérsic parameters decreases with source brightness or SNR. In F444W, pysersic retrieves Sérsic parameters within fractional errors of 10% for the majority (68%) of the instances at a given magnitude or SNR, down to SNR ∼ 30, which approximately corresponds to mF444W ∼ 26. There is little (<2%) or no systematic offset in the median fractional errors at SNR > 10 (or mF444W < 27). The panels on the right show the histogram of Sérsic parameter residuals normalized by pysersic uncertainties at SNR > 10, compared to a unit's Gaussian distribution. Notably, pysersic uncertainties encapsulate the discrepancy between true and fitted values exceptionally well for ellipticity. However, pysersic systematically underestimates the uncertainty for flux, half-light radius, and Sérsic index by a factor of roughly 2 (or 1.5, in the case of the Sérsic index), as indicated by broadening of these distributions relative to the unit's Gaussian distribution.

Other Images in This Article

Show More

Copyright and Terms & Conditions

Additional terms of reuse