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
Affiliations
- Marco Martorano
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- Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent , Krijgslaan 281 S9, B-9000 Gent, Belgium ; [email protected]
- Arjen van der Wel
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- Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent , Krijgslaan 281 S9, B-9000 Gent, Belgium ; [email protected]
- Eric F. Bell
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Michigan , 1085 South University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109–1107, USA
- Marijn Franx
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- Leiden Observatory, Leiden University , P.O. Box 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Katherine E. Whitaker
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, MA 01003, USA; Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, København N, DK-2200, Denmark
- Angelos Nersesian
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- Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent , Krijgslaan 281 S9, B-9000 Gent, Belgium ; [email protected]
- Sedona H. Price
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Maarten Baes
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- Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent , Krijgslaan 281 S9, B-9000 Gent, Belgium ; [email protected]
- Katherine A. Suess
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California , Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology and Department of Physics, Stanford University , Stanford, CA 94305, USA
- Erica J. Nelson
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- Department for Astrophysical and Planetary Science, University of Colorado , Boulder, CO 80309, USA
- Tim B. Miller
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- Department of Astronomy, Yale University , 52 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
- Rachel Bezanson
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and PITT PACC, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
- Gabriel Brammer
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- Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen , Jagtvej 128, København N, DK-2200, Denmark
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf716
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 957,
no. 1
p. 46
Abstract
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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