The Voigt Profile as a Sum of a Gaussian and a Lorentzian Functions, when the Weight Coefficient Depends Only on the Widths Ratio |
| H.O. Di Roccoa,b and A. Cruzadoc, d
aInstituto de Física Arroyo Seco (IFAS), Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires, Pinto 399, 7000 Tandil, Buenos Aires, Argentina bConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Rivadavia 1917, C1033AAJ Buenos Aires, Argentina cFacultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofísicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina dInstituto de Astrofísica de La Plata (IALP-CONICET), Paseo del Bosque s/n, 1900 La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Received: December 20, 2011; revised version: March 6, 2012; in final form: May 24, 2012 |
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| Assuming that V(x) ≈ (1 - μ) G1 (x) + μ L1 (x) is a very good approximation of the Voigt function, in this work we analytically find μ from mathematical properties of V(x). G1 (x) and L1 (x) represent a Gaussian and a Lorentzian function, respectively, with the same height and HWHM as V(x), the Voigt function, x being the distance from the function center. μ is obtained as a function of a, a being the ratio of the Lorentz width to the Gaussian width. We find that, the Voigt function calculated with the expression we have obtained for μ, deviates from the exact value less than 0.5% with respect to the peak value. |
| DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.122.666 PACS numbers: 32.70.-n, 32.70.Jz |