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Total galaxy magnitudes and effective radii from Petrosian magnitudes and radii

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2005

Authors

Graham, Alister
Driver, Simon
Petrosian, Vahe
Conselice, Christopher J
Bershady, Matthew
Crawford, Steven M
Goto, Tomotsugu

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University of Chicago Press

Abstract

Petrosian magnitudes were designed to help with the difficult task of determining a galaxy's total light. Although these magnitudes [taken here as the flux within 2RP, with the inverted Petrosian index 1/η(RP) = 0.2] can represent most of an object's flu

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Keywords

Keywords: Galaxies: fundamental parameters; Galaxies: structure; Methods: analytical; Methods: data analysis

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/84663

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ANU Research Publications

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Astronomical Journal

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Journal article

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DOI

10.1086/444475

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2037-12-31

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