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29 March 2024
 
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The Peculiar Motions of Early-Type Galaxies in Two Distant Regions. IV. The Photometric Fitting Procedure
R.P. Saglia ; E. Bertschinger ; G. Baggley ; D. Burstein ; M. Colless ; R.L. Davies ; R.K. McMahan Jr. ; G. Wegner ;
Date 12 Sep 1996
Subject astro-ph
AbstractThe EFAR project is a study of 736 candidate early-type galaxies in 84 clusters lying in two regions towards Hercules-Corona Borealis and Perseus-Cetus at distances $cz approx 6000-15000$ km/s. In this paper we describe a new method of galaxy photometry adopted to derive the photometric parameters of the EFAR galaxies. The algorithm fits the circularized surface brightness profiles as the sum of two seeing-convolved components, an $R^{1/4}$ and an exponential law. This approach allows us to fit the large variety of luminosity profiles displayed by the EFAR galaxies homogeneously and to derive (for at least a subset of these) bulge and disk parameters. Multiple exposures of the same objects are optimally combined and an optional sky-fitting procedure has been developed to correct for sky subtraction errors. Extensive Monte Carlo simulations are analyzed to test the performance of the algorithm and estimate the size of random and {it systematic} errors. Random errors are small, provided that the global signal-to-noise ratio of the fitted profiles is larger than $approx 300$. Systematic errors can result from 1) errors in the sky subtraction, 2) the limited radial extent of the fitted profiles, 3) the lack of resolution due to seeing convolution and pixel sampling, 4) the use of circularized profiles for very flattened objects seen edge-on and 5) a poor match of the fitting functions to the object profiles. Large systematic errors are generated by the widely used simple $R^{1/4}$ law to fit luminosity profiles when a disk component, as small as 20% of the total light, is present.
Source arXiv, astro-ph/9609089
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