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Caption: Figure 7.
(a) Gini coefficient (
G) vs. rotational asymmetry (
A). Dividing lines are drawn between regions of predominantly irregular, spiral, and elliptical types from Capak et al. (2007b).
The dashed line between irregular and spiral galaxies is defined as log
A = 2.353log
G + 0.353, while the solid line between spiral and early-type galaxies is defined as log
A = 5.5log
G + 0.825. The dot-dashed line is a cut at log
G = −0.35, used to select early-type galaxies in this paper. (b) Gini coefficient (
G) vs.
M
20. The solid line is defined as
M
20 = 8.0log
G + 1.1. EROs that have spectral type,
, are colored red, and those with
are blue.
d (
d
GA
,
d
G
,
d
GM
) is the perpendicular distance from each point in the diagram to the dividing lines.
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