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Caption: Figure 15.
Total magnitude vs. the nuclear luminosity fraction (fnuc) for UCDs and nucleated dEs in Virgo. Filled yellow circles represent UCDs (fnuc = 1). Filled dark red circles represent certain/probable eUCDs. Filled blue circles and squares are strongly nucleated dEs with and without velocity measurements. Gray-filled circles and gray open circles represent Virgo nucleated galaxies with and without velocity measurements. A gray dot indicates the average fnuc and magnitude of eUCDs (﹩{\langle {g}_{\mathrm{tot}}{^{\prime} }\rangle }_{\mathrm{eUCD}}=20.0﹩ mag and ﹩{\langle {f}_{\mathrm{nuc}}\rangle }_{\mathrm{eUCD}}=56 \% ﹩), with error bars of 1σ distribution. The gray dotted line shows the assumed fnuc evolutionary curve with constant nuclear magnitude. The shaded regions represent the 1σ (orange) and 2σ (light blue) boundaries on the evolutionary curve.
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