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Table 2.
Mass-Sérsic index-size relation, as modelled in Sect. 3.2.
| Parameter description | ||
|---|---|---|
| μn, 0 | 0.704 ± 0.002 | Average log n at stellar mass log M* = 11.4 |
| σn | 0.163 ± 0.001 | Dispersion in log n around the average |
| βn | 0.464 ± 0.009 | Power-law dependence of Sérsic index on M* |
| μR, 0 | 0.817 ± 0.002 | Average log Re at stellar mass log M* = 11.4 and Sérsic index n = 4 |
| σR | 0.133 ± 0.002 | Dispersion in log Re around the average |
| βR | 1.184 ± 0.012 | Power-law dependence of size on M* |
| νR | 0.383 ± 0.011 | Power-law dependence of size on n |
| μ* | 11.249 ± 0.004 | Mean-like parameter of Gaussian term in Eq. (5) |
| σ* | 0.285 ± 0.004 | Dispersion-like parameter of Gaussian term in Eq. (5) |
| logs* | 0.43 ± 0.02 | Log of the skewness parameter in Eq. (6) |
Notes.
Median values and 68% credible interval of the posterior probability distribution of individual hyper-parameters, marginalised over the rest of the hyper-parameters.
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