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Caption: Figure 6.
Ellipticity
and surface brightness μ
V
along the major axis of NGC 4762 measured by fitting ellipses to the isophotes in the ACS and SDSS
g-band images. We used the transformation
V =
g + 0.320 − 0.399(
g −
z) from KFCB and the galaxy color
g −
z = 2.076 from F2006. All magnitudes and colors are VEGAmag. The dashed curves show a decomposition of the profile inside the
fit range (vertical dashes across the profile). The bulge, bar, lens, and disk are represented by Sérsic functions with indices
n given in the figure. Their intensity sum (solid curve) fits the data with an rms of 0.033
V mag arcsec
−2.
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