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The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXVI. Caught in the Act of Transformation: Morphological Decomposition and Classification of Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster

  • Authors: Kaixiang Wang, Eric W. Peng, Chengze Liu, Laura Ferrarese, Patrick Côté, J. Christopher Mihos, Matthew A. Taylor, John P. Blakeslee, Jean-Charles Cuillandre, Pierre-Alain Duc, Puragra Guhathakurta, Stephen Gwyn, Youkyung Ko, Ariane Lançon, Sungsoon Lim, Lauren A. MacArthur, Thomas Puzia, Joel Roediger, Laura V. Sales, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, Chelsea Spengler, Elisa Toloba, Hong-Xin Zhang, Mingcheng Zhu

Kaixiang Wang et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 285 .

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Caption: Figure 16.

2D decompositions for certain eUCDs. First column: radial surface brightness profile of the UCD and best-fit result of the two-component fitting. All eUCDs can be well fit with an inner King model and an outer Sérsic model. The total, King, and Sérsic model profiles are shown with red, magenta, and green dashed curves, respectively. The gray dashed line is the PSF profile. Error bars represent 1σ uncertainties. The fitting residuals are shown below the source profile. Second column: NGVS ﹩{u}^{* }g^{\prime} i^{\prime} ﹩ color composite image. Third column: the ﹩{g}^{{\prime} }﹩-band image of UCD, with contours showing the surface brightness at ﹩{\mu }_{g}^{{\prime} }=24﹩–27 mag arcsec−2. Last column: (data−model) residual map.

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