NGC 4698

Michele Cappellari, Padova, 20 October 1998

Disk-Bulge Decomposition

Best-fit 2-D Disk-Bulge decomposition of NGC4698. Only the cuts along the major and minor axes of the image (in black) and of the model (dashed in red) are shown here. A seeing PSF with FWHM=1.2" has been adopted in the modeling.

Enlargement of the central region of the previous plot. The major and minor axis profiles (in black) agree exceptionally well, indicating that the disk+bulge appear perfectly round within the inner ~20".
Same as previous plot, with superimposed the individual disk and bulge components before the seeing convolution.

Difference image (Observed-Model in magnitudes) for the best-fit 2-D model shown in the previous plots. Note the systematic residuals, indicating that the observations are not completely described by a disk+bulge with perfectly elliptical isophotes.

 

 

More details on the exponential disk decomposition are found on This Page



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