Measuring Structural Properties of Galaxies in the Local Universe

Authors: Paul D. Allen, Simon P. Driver, Jochen Liske, Alister W. Graham,

Abstract: The Millennium Galaxy Catalogue provides a representative and complete sample of nearby galaxies for structural analysis. GIM2D is used to model the light profiles for over 10,000 resolved galaxies, using three different schemes: R1/4+Exponential, R1/n+Exponential, and R1/n. The resulting catalogues are shown to be robust for those galaxies with component half-light radii greater than the seeing.