This is an erratum to the paper ‘A family of lowered isothermal models’, which was published in MNRAS, 454(1), 576 (2015). In section 2.1.5, the right-hand sides of equations (20) and (21) correspond to |$\lim _{\hat{\phi }\rightarrow 0}\mathcal {I}^{\rho }$| and |$\lim _{\hat{\phi }\rightarrow 0}\mathcal {I}^{\rho \sigma ^2}$|⁠, respectively. The limiting behaviour of |$\hat{\rho }$| and |$\hat{\rho }\hat{\sigma }^2$| is
(20)
(21)
There is also a typo in the expression of |$\sigma _{\rm S}^2(r)$| (equation 41) in section 4.2. The correct notation is
(41)
These printed mistakes do not affect any of the figures. The limepy code1 had the correct version of |$\sigma _{\rm S}^2(r)$| implemented, and there are therefore no ramifications for publications that used limepy models.

Acknowledgements

We thank Ian Claydon for spotting the mistakes in equations (20) and (21).

Footenotes

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limepy is available from: https://github.com/mgieles/limepy.

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