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The First Systematic Survey of Stellar Halos in High-inclination Galaxies Reveals Unusually Quiescent Merger Histories of Nearby Galaxies

  • Authors: Bojun Tao, Hong-Xin Zhang, Wenting Wang, Enci Wang, Guangwen Chen, Huiyuan Wang, Lijun Chen, Qian-Hui Chen, Song Huang, Xu Kong, Yu Rong

Bojun Tao et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 284 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

Similar to Figure 2, but after subtracting bright stars and masking contamination sources. Red ellipses show the isophotal contours in the low-surface brightness outskirts. See Sections 3.1.1 and 3.1.3 for details.

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