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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XL. The Morphological Classification of Virgo Cluster Galaxies

  • Authors: Max M. Kurzner, Patrick Côté, Laura Ferrarese, Kaixiang Wang, Eric W. Peng, Scott Wilkinson, Joel C. Roediger, Chelsea Spengler, Toby Brown, Chengze Liu, Sungsoon Lim, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Elisa Toloba, Puragra Guhathakurta, John P. Blakeslee, Patrick R. Durrell, Ariane Lançon, J. Christopher Mihos, Matthew A. Taylor, Tyrone E. Woods, Solveig Thompson, Lauren A. MacArthur

Max M. Kurzner et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 170 .

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Caption: Figure 13.

Scaling relations for NGVS galaxies with ﹩\mathrm{log}{M}_{\star }\,\leqslant \,10﹩. Panels: (a) size–magnitude (﹩\mathrm{log}{r}_{e,g}﹩ vs. Mg), (b) effective surface brightness (μe,g vs. Mg), (c) mean surface brightness within one effective radius (〈μe,g vs. Mg), and (d) color–magnitude (u − i vs. Mg). Black curves show polynomial fits to the NGVS population; long-dashed black lines mark the ±2.5σ envelopes. UDG candidates (blue) and compact galaxies (red) are highlighted. Marker shape encodes how many relations the object is an outlier in: circles = 1, triangles = 2, squares = 3. Outliers are defined as points lying outside the ±2.5σ envelope of the corresponding fit.

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