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Caption: Figure 11.
Radial variation of the LMC disk geometry. Left: inclination angle i as a function of galactocentric radius from the LMC center (in degrees). Right: PA of the LON, θ, as a function of the same radius. Black solid lines show measurements from this work using elliptical annuli: 1° wide from 0° to 8° and 2° wide from 8° to 14°. Red solid lines indicate circular-area fits at each radius. The black (red) shaded regions denote the 1σ uncertainties for our reported i (θ) values. For comparison, previously published measurements from Y. Choi et al. (2018a) are overplotted as dashed lines, and those from S. Saroon & S. Subramanian (2022) as dotted lines, using both annular and circular fitting approaches as labeled.
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