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Caption: Figure 5.
Locations of our sample in the G–M20–A planes, including comparison populations (Section 5.1) and morphological boundaries (Section 5.3). As described in Section 4.1, G is a measure of how concentrated the light is in an image (with higher G corresponding to more concentrated light), M20 is a measure of the variance of the brightest 20% of the light (with more negative M20 corresponding to less variance), and A is a measure of the mirror symmetry of all the light from a galaxy (with higher A corresponding to greater asymmetry).
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