Analytical expressions for the deprojected Sersic model
arXiv:1009.4713 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201015716
Abstract
The Sersic model has become the standard to parametrize the surface brightness distribution of early-type galaxies and bulges of spiral galaxies. A major problem is that the deprojection of the Sersic surface brightness profile to a luminosity density cannot be executed analytically for general values of the Sersic index. Mazure & Capelato (2002) used the Mathematica computer package to derive an expression of the Sersic luminosity density in terms of the Meijer G function for integer values of the Sersic index. We generalize this work using analytical means and use Mellin integral transforms to derive an exact, analytical expression for the luminosity density in terms of the Fox H function for all values of the Sersic index. We derive simplified expressions for the luminosity density, cumulative luminosity and gravitational potential in terms of the Meijer G function for all rational values of the Sersic index and we investigate their asymptotic behaviour at small and large radii. As implementations of the Meijer G function are nowadays available both in symbolic computer algebra packages and as high-performance computing code, our results open up the possibility to calculate the density of the Sersic models to arbitrary precision.
9 pages, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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