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Caption: Figure 3.
Example of deprojections with HyperLeda and P4 orientation parameters (﹩{(b/a)}_{\mathrm{outer}}﹩ and PAouter) for NGC 3992. The red and green ellipses on the original image in the left illustrate the HyperLeda and P4 parameters, respectively (semimajor axis of the ellipse equals Rgal), the panel in the middle shows the deprojection with HyperLeda orientation, and that in the right with P4 parameters: here the inclination is taken simply as ﹩i={\mathrm{cos}}^{-1}(b/a)﹩ (note that this differs from the inclination (“incl”) listed in HyperLeda, which includes a morphological type-dependent correction for the assumed disk thickness). Clearly, the face-on disk is closer to axisymmetric when using P4 parameters: the difference would remain if the thickness-corrected HyperLeda inclination were used (47° for this example). Similar plots for all sample galaxies can be found in the P4 web site.
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