Bibcode
Méndez-Abreu, Jairo; Corsini, E. M.; Aguerri, J. A. L.
Referencia bibliográfica
"Proceedings of "Baryons in Dark Matter Halos". Novigrad, Croatia, 5-9 Oct 2004. Editors: R. Dettmar, U. Klein, P. Salucci. Published by SISSA, Proceedings of Science, http://pos.sissa.it, p.83.1"
Fecha de publicación:
12
2004
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
0
Descripción
The analysis of the light distribution of galaxy is a crucial step in
studying their structural components and therefore it plays a key role
in understanding the processes that led to galaxy formation and
evolution. For example, this allows to investigate the 3D shape of
bulges and disks or when combined with kinematic data to derive the mass
distribution of the luminous matter of galaxies in order to constrain
their dark matter content. Conventional bulge-disk photometric
decompositions based on elliptically averaged surface brightness
profiles are subject to strong systematic errors due to the different
intrinsic shapes of bulge and disk and to the viewing angle of the
galaxy (e.g., [1]). Several 2D decomposition techniques have been
developed in the last years (e.g., [2], [3]). Here we present an
automatic and 2D parametric photometric decomposition to derive the pa-
rameters of the structural components of disk galaxies. It differs from
the previous ones for the choice of guess parameters, seeing
convolution, and allowing free position angles for bulge and disk. The
fitting algorithm adopts a Sérsic and exponential model for the
bulge and disk component, respectively. Our aim is to apply our code for
photometric decomposition to study high and low surface-brightness
galaxies.