The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2023)

Rest-frame Near-infrared Radial Light Profiles up to z = 3 from JWST/NIRCam: Wavelength Dependence of the Sérsic Index

  • Marco Martorano,
  • Arjen van der Wel,
  • Eric F. Bell,
  • Marijn Franx,
  • Katherine E. Whitaker,
  • Angelos Nersesian,
  • Sedona H. Price,
  • Maarten Baes,
  • Katherine A. Suess,
  • Erica J. Nelson,
  • Tim B. Miller,
  • Rachel Bezanson,
  • Gabriel Brammer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf716
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 957, no. 1
p. 46

Abstract

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We examine the wavelength dependence of radial light profiles based on Sérsic index n measurements of 1067 galaxies with M _* ≥ 10 ^9.5 M _⊙ and in the redshift range 0.5 10 ^11 M _⊙ ).

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