profitMag2Mu: Magnitude to Surface Brightness Conversions

In ProFit: Fit Projected 2D Profiles to Galaxy Images

Description

Functions to convert total magnitudes to surface brightness and vica-versa. These are provided to allow models to be either specified by total magnitude or mean surface brightness within Re. The latter is a useful way of specifying a disk model since surface brightness does not span a huge range.

Usage

profitMag2Mu(mag = 15, re = 1, axrat = 1, pixscale = 1)
profitMu2Mag(mu = 17, re = 1, axrat = 1, pixscale = 1)

Arguments

mag	Total magnitude of the 2D Sersic profile.
mu	Mean surface brightness within Re of the 2D Sersic profile.
re	Effective radii of the 2D Sersic profile.
axrat	Axial ratio of Sersic profile defined as minor-axis/major-axis, i.e. 1 is a circle and 0 is a line.
pixscale	The pixel scale, where pixscale=asec/pix (e.g. 0.4 for SDSS). If set to 1, then the surface brightness is interpreted in terms of pixels, otherwise it is interpreted in terms of arcseconds^2.

Value

profitMag2Mu returns the mean surface brightness within Re of the 2D Sersic profile.

profitMag2Mu returns total magnitude of the 2D Sersic profile.

Author(s)

Aaron Robotham

See Also

profitMakeModel

Examples

profitMag2Mu(mag=22, re=10, axrat=0.5)
profitMu2Mag(mu=28, re=10, axrat=0.5)

Example output

Loading required package: FITSio
Loading required package: LaplacesDemon
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Loading required package: MASS
Loading required package: plotrix
Loading required package: sm
Package 'sm', version 2.2-5.4: type help(sm) for summary information

Attaching package: 'sm'

The following object is masked from 'package:MASS':

    muscle

Loading required package: mapproj
Loading required package: maps
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Loading required package: pracma

Attaching package: 'pracma'

The following object is masked from 'package:sm':

    nile

The following objects are masked from 'package:LaplacesDemon':

    Mode, logit, loglog

Loading required package: R2Cuba
Loading required package: RColorBrewer
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ProFit documentation built on Nov. 11, 2019, 5:07 p.m.