Sérsic: Exact deprojection of Sérsic surface brightness profiles
Abstract
Sérsic is an implementation of the exact deprojection of Sérsic surface brightness profiles described in Baes and Gentile (2011). This code depends on the mpmath python library for an implementation of the Meijer G function required by the Baes and Gentile (hereafter B+G) formulas for rational values of the Sérsic index. Sérsic requires rational Sérsic indices, but any irrational number can be approximated arbitrarily well by some rational number. The code also depends on scipy, but the dependence is mostly for testing. The implementation of the formulas and the formulas themselves have undergone comprehensive testing.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics Source Code Library
- Pub Date:
- April 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013ascl.soft04009N
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- Software