Bibcode
Ferrari, F.; Dottori, H.; Caon, N.; Nobrega, A.; Pavani, D. B.
Bibliographical reference
Boletim da Sociedade Astronômica Brasileira (ISSN 0101-3440), vol.23, no.1, p.150-150
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2003
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Description
In this paper we discuss the reason for the widely found discrepancy
between Sérsic brightness law fitted along major and minor axes
of elliptical galaxies. We show that this difference is a natural
consequence of the isophotes eccentricity law. We present a mathematical
transformation that allows to obtain the minor axis Sérsic's law
from that of the mayor axis one, provided that the eccentricity can be
represented by a well behaved, though very general, function of the
radius, and that the isophotes ellipses major axis are aligned and
concentric. For constant eccentricity, only the coefficient of R1/n is
changed, while for distance dependent eccentricity the transformation is
given by the Lerch F transcendental function. We discuss 28 galaxies of
type E0 to E7, dS0 and S0.