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ISSN 1063-7729, Astronomy Reports, 2009, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp. 1101­1116. c Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2009. Original Russian Text c M.A. Startseva, O.K. Sil'chenko, A.V. Moiseev, 2009, published in Astronomicheski Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 86, No. 12, pp. 1163­1178. i

Structure of the Galaxies of the NGC 80 Group: Two-Tiered Disks
M. A. Startseva1 , O. K. Sil'chenko1 , and A. V. Moiseev
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Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 2 Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Arkhyz, Karachaevo-Cherkessia Republic, Russia
Received March 20, 2009; in final form, June 25, 2009

Abstract--Two-color photometric data obtained on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory are used to analyze the structure of 13 large disk galaxies in the NGC 80 group. Nine of the 13 studied galaxies are classified as lenticular galaxies. The stellar populations in the galaxies are very diverse, from old stars with ages of T > 10 billion years (IC 1541) to relatively young stars with ages of T 1-3 billion years (IC 1548, NGC 85); in one case, star formation is ongoing (UCM 0018+2216). In most of the studied galaxies, more precisely in all of them brighter than MB -18, two-tiered stellar disks are detected, whose radial surface-brightness profiles can be described by two exponential segments with different characteristic scales--shorter near the center and longer at the periphery. All of the dwarf S0 galaxies with single-tiered disks are close companions to larger galaxies. Except for this fact, no dependence of the properties of S0 galaxies on distance from the center of the group is found. Morphological signs of a "minor merger" are found in the lenticular galaxy NGC 85. Based on these last two results, it is concluded that the most probable mechanism for their transformation of spiral into lenticular galaxies in groups is gravitational (minor mergers and tidal interactions). PACS numbers: 98.52.Nr, 98.62.Ai, 98.62.Lv, 98.65.At, 95.85.Kr DOI: 10.1134/S1063772909120038

1. INTRODUCTION It is currently believed that lenticular galaxies, which Hubble [1] took to be intermediate between elliptical and spiral galaxies, have morphologically formed in the past five billion years which is comfirmed by observations of clusters and groups at intermediate redshifts, z = 0.2-0.7 [2, 3]. This picture is no longer doubted. However, the diversity of opinions and results grows sharply in connection with details and specific mechanisms for the transformation of spiral into lenticular galaxies. It is clear that, in order to transform a spiral into a lenticular galaxy, star formation must cease and the stellar disk must be dynamically heated, to allow the dissipation of the spiral arms. However, it is not obvious whether it is sufficient simply to cease star formation or whether it is necessary to sharply (and briefly) increase the intensity and efficiency of star formation at the galactic center to facilitate the growth of the bulge, which is, on average, more prominent in lenticulars than in spirals of the same mass [4, 5]. There is currently no observational answer to this question, but distinguishing the "mechanism" leading to the transformation of a spiral into an S0 galaxy depends on this answer. If we consider gas-dynamical mechanisms, the frontal (dynamical) pressure of the hot intergalactic medium

due to the speed with which the galaxy moves relative to the medium will predominantly "sweep out" gas from the galaxy, emptying it of "fuel" for star formation [6], while the static pressure of the surrounding hot gas will "squeeze" the cool gas of the galactic disk, stimulating star formation [7]. As a rule, gravitational effects, such as tidal perturbation of the disk dynamics by the gravitation of the cluster (group) as a whole or pair interactions between galaxies, primarily lead to the formation of a central bar, with the bar then facilitating the radial flow of gas in the disk toward the galactic center, intensifying star formation there. The outer parts of stellar disks that are left without gas in this way are dynamically heated, and can no longer support spiral structure [8­10]. Tidal effects also "strip" gas from the peripheries of galactic disks. Just as the dominant mechanism for the transformation of spiral into lenticular galaxies is unclear, it is likewise not clear where this transformation occurs. At z = 0, the highest density of lenticular galaxies is in clusters, where they comprise up to 60% of all cluster galaxies [11, 12]. This suggests that the transformation itself occurs in clusters [2, 13], especially since the gas-dynamical conditions (a dense, hot intergalactic medium, a high velocity dispersion for the galaxies) are favorable for this. However, the idea

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that lenticular galaxies are mainly formed in groups has gained more and more support in recent years; in this picture, groups accreting into clusters bring with them already formed lenticular galaxies [3]. This view is based on the observed morphological "mix" of galaxies in various types of environments at z = 0.3-0.7. If this picture is correct, it immediately identifies gravitational pair interactions, especially "minor mergers"--the absorption of small satellites--as the most likely mechanism for the formation of S0 galaxies, since groups differ from clusters primarily in the lower velocity dispersions for their member galaxies, which reduces the action of gas-dynamical effects, while enhancing the action of gravitational effects. The properties of galaxies in groups are currently known substantially less well than the properties of galaxies in clusters, making studies of the structure and stellar populations of lenticular galaxies in groups topical and of key importance for our further understanding of galaxy formation. In the current study,1 we consider the structure of lenticular galaxies, as well as early-type spiral galaxies, which are the most likely candidates for pre-lenticular galaxies, in the massive X-ray group NGC 80. NGC 80 is also known as GH3 [14], SRGb063 [15], and U013 [16], and is sometimes classified as a "poor cluster" (WBL 009 [17]). The X-ray flux from NGC 80 is log LX (h-2 erg/s) = 100 42.56 ± 0.09 [15], which is average for rich groups, and its estimated mass exceeds 1014 M [16]. The group occupies nearly a degree on the sky; our recent paper [18] shows a portion of a Palomar map 45 in size that contains nearly all the large group members. Radial velocity measurements were used to distinguish 45 group members in [19]; our visual examination of the maps indicates that at least half of these (24 galaxies) are late-type spiral galaxies, which is surprising, given the powerful X-ray halo of the group (it is thought that a hot, intergalactic medium is possessed by groups populated primarily by early-type galaxies). Could it be that NGC 80 is a young group, so that the process of transforming spiral group members into lenticulars has not yet finished? To investigate the properties of a sample of lenticular galaxies in this group, we obtained images in the B and V filters for fields around five large galaxies studied by us earlier in [18], and carried out surface photometry of objects with radii exceeding 10 . A list of studied galaxies is presented in Table 1 together with their global characteristics.
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2. OBSERVATIONS Photometric data were obtained on the 6-m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences using the SCORPIO instrument [20] in a direct-imaging regime. The receiver was a 2048 â 2048 EEV 42-40 CCD array. The counts were obtained in a double-pixel mode, which provided a scale of 0.35 per pixel. The total field of view was 6.1 . The observations were carried out in the standard Johnson B and V filters. An exposure of a dawn sky was taken for flat-fielding. A detailed journal of observations is presented in Table 2. The observations of the group NGC 80 were conducted on August 21, 2007 under photometric conditions, and the seeing was roughly 2 . We took exposures of five fields centered on the bright galaxies NGC 80, NGC 86, NGC 93, IC 1548, and IC 1541. The galaxy NGC 80 was used as a photometric standard; a good set of aperture photoelectric-photometry data are available for this galaxy in the HYPERLEDA database, primarily from [21]. In addition to the photometric data, we analyzed a series of spectral observations. The central region of NGC 85 was observed with the MPFS integral-field spectrograph of the 6-m telescope in September 2008 ° at blue-green wavelengths, 4150­5650 A , with an ° inverse dispersion of 0.75 A/pixel (a spectral resolu° (for a description of this instrution of about 3.5 A) ment, see [22]). The receiver for these observations was the same 2048 â 2048 CCD array. In the MPFS observations, a 16 â 16 microlens set constructs a pupil array, whose signals are provided to the entrance of the diffraction spectrograph. This configuration enables the simultaneous recording of 256 spectra, each of which corresponds to a spatial element of the galaxy image 1.0 â 1.0 in size; accordingly, the MPFS field of view is 16 â 16 . The data were used to investigate the rotation of the stellar component (we were not able to detect ionized gas in NGC 85), via a cross correlation between the galaxy spectra and MPFS data for K giant stars observed on the same night. The age and chemical composition of the stellar population in the nucleus and circum-nuclear region were estimated by determining the Lick H , Mgb, Fe5270, and Fe5335 indices [23] and comparing them with the models for "simple" stellar populations of Thomas et al. [24]. To study kinematics at distances of more than 8 from the center, the lenticular galaxy IC 1541 at the periphery of the group was observed on September 2, 2008 with the SCORPIO reductor in a longslit regime. The slit orientation was close to that of the major axis of the galaxy. The exposure was 30 min, and the VPHG1200R "red" grism was used,
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This study is based on the results of observations on the 6m telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


NGC 80 GALAXY GROUP Table 1. Global parameters of the studied galaxies Number ­ 029 030 034 035 040 016 055 058 041 044 051 ­
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Type (NED2 ) D SA0­ ­ ­ ­ ­ S0 S0 S0 S(Sb)3 Sbc (S0/a) S(Sbc)
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(LEDA3 ) MB (LEDA3 ) (B - V )4 3 1.82 0.36 0.33 0.41 0.334 0.68 0.72 0.68 1.32 0.74 0.89 0.63 0.29 ­21.6 ­17.6 ­17.9 ­18.8 ­184 ­19.5 ­19.4 ­19.3 ­20.8 ­20.0 ­20.3 ­18.5 ­17.3 1.03 0.84 0.95 0.99 0.96 1.18 1.04 1.00 1.06 1.05 1.17 0.93 0.72

Vr ,km/s (NED2 ) ,Mpc 5698 5709 6035 6130 5372 6204 5926 5746 5380 5591 6630 5850 5066 0

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CGCG 479-014B Sc UCM 0018+2216 Sb

According to the catalog [19]; from this same source, the distance to the group is 77 Mpc. NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Lyon­Meudon Extragalactic Database. Current study.

Table 2. Photometric and spectral observations of galaxies of the group in 2007­2008 NGC/IC 80 80 93 93 86 86 1548 1548 1541 1541 85 1541 Observation date 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 21.08.2007 04.09.2008 02.09.2008 Instrument SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM SCORPIO/IM MPFS SCORPIO/LS Wavelength range V B B V V B V B B V ° 4200­5600 A ° 5700­7400 A Exposure, s 60 180 180 â 2 60 â 3 120 â 2 180 â 3 120 â 2 180 â 3 180 â 3 90 â 3 5400 1800 Spatial resolution 2.3 2.1 2.0 2.0 2.2 2.0 1.9 2.1 1.8 2.3 1.9 2.3

° providing wavelengths 5700­7400 A and a spectral ° resolution of about 5 A, since the original goal was to search for weak emission from ionized gas in IC 1541. However, no traces of emission were detected, and the data were instead used to construct line-of-sight
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velosity cross-section for the stellar component (a rotation curve) via cross correlation of the galaxy spectra at various distances from the center and spectra of the twilight sky taken the same night with the same grid.


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Fig. 1. Original images obtained with the SCORPIO reductor in the V filter for eight large group members (the first and third horizontal rows show images with headers; the intensity scale is logarithmic) and maps of the residual brightness after subtracting multi-tier models for the images (the second and fourth horizontal rows show these maps beneath the corresponding original maps; the intensity scale is linear). The scale for the section is 20 .

3. ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF DISK GALAXIES IN THE NGC 80 GROUP We carried out a decomposition of the B and V radial surface-brightness profiles of the studied galaxies. Figures 1 and 2 present the original V images of the galaxies, together with the residual brightnesses after subtracting our models. The decomposition was carried out using the interactive GIDRA program, which realizes a method for successively constructing one-dimensional profiles and two-dimensional models (see, for example, [25]). The main idea of the method is to construct radial dependences for the surface brightness averaged in elliptical rings. The shape of these elliptical rings (position angle, major axis, and axial ratio) was specified based on an isophotal analysis of

the images conducted using the program FITELL of V.V. Vlasyuk. Images of foreground stars projected onto the galaxy were either masked or removed by subtracting a symmetrical profile corresponding to the scattering function for a point source (the case of a bright star next to NGC 86). Further, having constructed the azimuthally averaged surface-brightness profiles, the GIDRA program derived a piece-wise ´ approximation using a Sersic law [26]: (r ) = e +1.086bn [(r/re ) n - 1], where n, re , and e are parameters of the model and bn 2n - 0.32. We distinguished structural components of the galaxy, beginning with the outer regions, which we assumed to be disks with exponential ´ brightness profiles [27]--a special case of a Sersic law
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Fig. 2. Same as Fig. 1 for five dwarf group members. The residual brightness is given on a logarithmic intensity scale.

with n = 1. Having fit an exponential to the brightness profile of the outer stellar disk and determined its parameters, we constructed a two-dimensional model and subtracted it from the observed galaxy image. Further, the procedure of constructing and fitting an azimuthally averaged surface-brightness profile was repeated. If the ellipticity of the residual isophotes was not very different from the ellipticity of the outer isophotes, we concluded that a separate inner stellar disk was present in the galaxy, and fit it using a separate exponential law. After subtracting this inner disk, there usually remained a central bulge, for which ´ the Sersic parameter n was varied rather than fixed. However, in most cases, we obtained an exponential brightness profile for the bulge as well. This is the first conclusion of our analysis of the structure of early-type disk galaxies in the NGC 80 group: most of them have exponential bulges. An example of decomposing the brightness profile for a giant lenticular galaxy (IC 1541 at the periphery of the group) into two disks and an exponential bulge is shown in Fig. 3a. This galaxy is oriented nearly edge-on, and a thickening associated with the bulge is visible by eye only in the very central region of the galaxy; the two stellar disks with different exponential scales have comparable thicknesses. Figure 3a shows how
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deep our photometry is: the galactic disk extends to a radius of 30 kpc and the limiting surface brightness of V = 27.7m /arcsec2 extends appreciably beyond the Holmberg radius. The parameters of the photometric models for the sample galaxies are presented in Table 3, which gives the central surface brightness 0 = (0), not reduced to a face-on orientation. All the large lenticular galaxies have two-tiered exponential disks and exponential ´ bulges. The bulge of NGC 93 is best fit with a Sersic law with an index of two, as is typical for giant Sb galaxies. An interesting feature is shown by dwarf lenticular galaxies that are satellites of the central galaxy of the NGC 80 group: three of four display a single stellar disk and, when present, the central ´ spheroid is best fitwithaSersic law with index n < 1, as is typical for dwarf "diffuse" spheroidal galaxies. In one case--namely the nearest close companion to NGC 80, SRGb063.035--there is no bulge, and the entire galaxy consists of a single disk (Fig. 3b). Stellar structure with very low surface brightness is also visible around the single exponential disk of a close companion to NGC 86--UCM 0018+2216, which is an Sb galaxy according to the NED classification; however, no spiral arms are visible in the disk of UCM 0018+2216 in our plots and we re-classify


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16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 V, mag/arcsec2 28 29 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 0 5 10 R 15 20 SRGb 063.035 (b) 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 IC 1541 (a)

Fig. 3. Examples of separating a surface-brightness profile (in V ) into components. (a) The lenticular galaxy IC 1541. The long-dashed curve shows results for the outer stellar disk, the short-dashed curve results for the inner stellar disk, and the dotted curve results for the pseudobulge. The points represent the observational data: surface brightnesses of the V galaxy images azimuthally averaged along ellipses with shape parameters derived from an isophotal analysis (the horizontal axis plots the major axis for the averaging ellipse). The solid curve shows the summed model (the sum of all three model components). (b) Dwarf lenticular galaxy SRGb 063.035, which is a close companion to NGC 80. The shape of the profile can successfully be fit with an exponential having a single characteristic scale, i.e., with a single stellar disk.

it as an S0 galaxy that is probably in the process of forming. It is striking that the tidal influence of massive neighbors has "shortened" the brightness profiles of the dwarf galaxies and stimulated their secular evolution, "smoothing" the overall stellardensity distribution into a single exponential law. This provides an interesting clue to possible origins of the typical exponential surface-brightness profiles of stellar disks, which are not fully understood.

Figure 4 compares the central surface brightnesses and scales for the exponential distributions for all three types of structural component--the outer and inner disks and the exponential bulge. The central surface brightnesses reduced to a face-on orientation are here presented; we necessarily took into account the internal absorption in the galaxies, as well as the fact that the stellar disks in the lenticular galaxies are "thick." Historically, after the publication of the first
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NGC 80 GALAXY GROUP Table 3. Parameters of photometric components of galaxies in the NGC 80 group Outer disk Number Filter (NGC 80) (NGC 80) 029 029 030 030 034 034 035 035 040 040 016 016 055 055 058 058 041 041 044 051 051 (UCM) (UCM)


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0 , h, h, /arcsec2 arcsec kpc 22.6 21.4 24.1 23.1 23.2 23.0 24.6 23.3 ­ ­ 22.6 21.6 24.5 22.5 23.1 22.4 23.4 22.5 22.8 22.2 23.4 22.6 22.7 25.0 24.0 25.1 27.7 8.8 8.7 9.5 9.4 17.3 16.7 ­ ­ 9.2 9.2 24.6 15.7 11.5 12.5 26.1 25.5 9.0 11.4 23.0 9.0 9.6 7.5 7.0 9.4 10.3 3.3 3.2 3.5 3.5 6.5 6.2 ­ ­ 3.4 3.4 9.2 5.9 4.3 4.7 9.7 9.5 3.4 4.2 8.6 3.4 3.6 2.8 2.6

0 , h, h, /arcsec2 arcsec kpc n 20.7 19.4 ­ ­ ­ ­ 20.1 19.1 22.0 20.7 21.6 20.3 21.3 18.6 21.5 20.6 20.6 19.4 19.1 18.9 21.0 20.4 19.5 ­ ­ 5.7 4.8 ­ ­ ­ ­ 2.2 2.2 4.0 3.3 5.7 6.2 7.5 5.8 6.3 6.3 7.2 7.6 4.8 4.9 9.0 6.9 6.9 ­ ­ 2.1 1 1.8 1 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­

0 , h, h, /arcsec2 arcsec kpc 18.4 17.3 ­ ­ ­ ­ 19.0 17.9 ­ ­ 20.0 19.0 19.2 17.1 19.5 18.6 20.6 19.5 19.3 18.4 ­ ­ 22.9 20.3 19.5 2.0 1.8 ­ ­ ­ ­ 1.1 1.1 ­ ­ 2.2 2.4 2.1 2.2 2.2 2.5 4.1 3.1 2.0 2.0 ­ ­ 1.4 1.8 1.8 0.7 0.7 ­ ­ ­ ­ 0.4 0.4 ­ ­ 0.8 0.9 0.8 0.8 0.8 1.0 1.5 1.2 0.8 0.8 ­ ­ 0.5 0.7 0.7

B V B V B V B V B V B V B V B V B V B V V B V B V

4 166 100 110 159 148 35 85 53 8 116 32 105

0.8 1 0.8 1 1.5 ­ 1.2 ­ 2.1 1 2.3 1 2.8 1 2.2 1 2.4 1 2.4 1 2.7 2 2.8 2 1.8 1 1.8 1 3.4 ­ 2.6 ­ 2.6 1 ­ ­ 1 1

0.1­0.18 0.18 0.64 0.36 0.36 0.64 0.53 0.32 0.10

Orientation parameters (position angle for the major axis PA and ellipticity) refer to the outermost measured isophotes.

statistics for the parameters of stellar disks of nearby galaxies by Freeman [27], who reported that the central surface brightnesses were grouped near the value 0 (B ) = 21.7m /arcsec2 and had a Gaussian distribution with the width of the order of the measurement errors, virtually all subsequent photometric surveys have given broad distributions for the central surface brightnesses and a correlation between the central surface brightness and the exponential scale of the disk (see, for example, [28­31] and others). However, these surveys did not allow for the possible
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presence of multi-tiered exponential disks. A correlation between the central surface brightness and the exponential scale is also obvious in our Fig. 4, where up to three structural components are superposed for each galaxy; however, we can now see that the existence of this correlation is actually due to the presence of three types of structural component with various degrees of concentration of the density toward the center. The three clouds of points corresponding to the outer disks, inner disks, and exponential bulges have various mean scales and central surface


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Fig. 4. Empirical relation between the central surface brightness and the characteristic exponential scales for the stellar disks of early-type galaxies. Our results for the outer disks, inner disks, and pseudobulges are superposed, together with literature data from photometric surveys specifying only one exponential disk in the models. The horizontal dashed line indicates the mean central surface brightness of global stellar disks of nearby galaxies according to Freeman [27].

brightnesses, but no correlation between scale and central surface brightness is observed within each cloud of points. The outer disks all have lower surface brightness than the "Freeman standard," while the inner disks are all brighter. It is not ruled out that there is no physical correlation between scale and surface brightness, while there exist several types of stellar disks with different origins. However, this conclusion requires verification based on brightnessprofile decompositions for a larger statistical sample taking into account the presence of multi-tiered disks. In the construction of the model images for the galaxies and the subtraction of these from the observed images, apart from the large-scale structural components, it was possible in a number of cases to also distinguish small-scale peculiar structures, which are clearly visible in the residual-brightness maps in Figs. 1 and 2. We present a brief description of these substructures for each galaxy below. NGC 86. The stellar population at the galactic center is old [18]. After subtracting the outer and inner exponential disks, a "boxy" bulge with spiral arms remains in the brightness distribution, with the position angle of the major axis of the bulge, about 170 , differing appreciably from the orientation of the disks. The best fit to the bulge is obtained using a ´ Sersic law with an index of one (an exponential bulge) and with r0 = 2 , 0 = 19m /arcsec2 , and the ratio

of the minor and major axes being about 0.95. Subtracting this bulge leads to a residual image that is reminiscent of a bar that is evolved in the z direction. The residual brightness after this subtraction occupies roughly 50% of the total area of the bulge, i.e., it is more compact. We suggest that the exponential bulge of the galaxy is a pseudobulge whose origin is associated with the development of vertical instability in a bar [32]. NGC 85. The outer disk begins to dominate the brightness profile at distances r > 20 (7.5 kpc) from the center, and its parameters are characteristic for the "mean" disks of spiral galaxies (Table 3). After subtracting the outer disk, the residual has an exponential profile with excess brightness near the southern edge. One has the impression that the obtained inner disk has a higher inclination and a smaller position angle than the outer disk. The new orientation parameters are i = 50 , PA = 137 . Fitting an exponential to the brightness profile in the radius range 8-15 yields the parameters of a second disk (Table 3). After subtracting this disk as well, the residuals resemble a small lens-like region with "tails." It is interesting that the position angle of the small lens seems closer to the position angle of the outer than of the inner disk, whereas the opposite is true of its inclination. We have recently seen a similar structure in the counter-rotating lenticular galaxy NGC 5631, which clearly demonstrates effects of a minor merger [33]. Further fitting of the residual
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brightness profile for NGC 85 seems to indicate a fairly elongated exponential bulge (b/a = 0.83). The residuals after subtraction of this bulge visually resemble three features with tails, which are likely a consequence of a recent merger, which also led to the formation of the lenticular galaxy. PGC 1384. It is immediately obvious that this galaxy contains large amounts of dust. Since the galaxy is viewed nearly edge-on, the dust strongly impedes the decomposition, as the galactic center is hidden within this dust. It is interesting that dust is not visible in the outer disk of this very dusty galaxy, which apparently testifies to secular evolution during which the gas and dust have become more concentrated toward the galactic center. Therefore, we adopted as the model nucleus the center of the outer, rather than the inner, isophotes. The fitting of the outer disk was carried out for r > 30 .At r < 19 , the residual profile in the V filter is fit well by an exponential law corresponding to a second disk. We were not able to analyze the most central region of the galaxy, since they were strongly screened by dust, even in the V filter. UCM 0018+2216. The name of this galaxy indicates that it was discovered in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid survey, which was aimed at searching for emission-line galaxies. Subsequent long-slit spectroscopy [34] showed that a modest intensity of star formation is occurring in the galactic nucleus. Our images display a modest asymmetry of the galaxy relative to the center of the inner isophotes: its southeastern edge is more elongated than its northwestern edge. Because of this, the northern parts of the galaxy are slightly "oversubtracted," and the residual brightness is shifted to the south of the center. The outer disk begins to dominate at r > 13 . After subtracting the outer disk, a second exponential disk can be fit to the residual profile at r = 2-6 . After subtracting both disks, there remains an interesting region resembling a boxy bulge with an elongated shape and a sort of weak, tightly wound spiral structure (ring?) visible in the B filter. IC 1548. The stellar population in the galactic center is young: younger than 1.5 billion years in the nucleus and 3 billion years in the bulge [18]. After subtracting the two exponential disks from this fairly strongly inclined lenticular galaxy, there remains a circular exponential bulge surrounded by rudimentary spirals. CGCG 479-014B. This is a late-type spiral with a large bar. The brightness profile of the outer disk has type II according to the scheme of Freeman [27]-- exponential with a "hole" in the center. The bulge is small and circular, and its Sersic parameter is determined only uncertainly due to its compactness.
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NGC 93. Our previous study [18] revealed a chemically distinct nucleus in the old bulge of this galaxy, which formed 3­4 billion years ago in a secondary burst of star formation. The powerful dust band visible in images indicates that the northwestern part of the disk is located on the near side of the galaxy. When constructing our models, we had to mask both the region of strong dust absorption and the high-contrast spiral arms. The outer disk begins to dominate at r = 43 (16 kpc), while the inner disk dominates at r = 20-40 . After subtracting the two disks, there remains a small lens-like region that is asymmetrical due to the presence of the dust band. It is possible to fit the residual brightness at r = 5-11 using a single ring disk (with a "hole" at its center), with its brightness profile cut off at r > 11 . After fitting ´ the residual brightness at r = 2-11 with a Sersic bulge with n = 2 and isophote ellipticity 0.75, a very interesting residual brightness distribution appears, which resembles a one-sided bar (whose other half is hidden by dust) or a satellite that is smeared by tidal forces. IC 1541. The stellar population at the galactic center is old [18]. See Fig. 3a for an analysis of the surface-brightness profile. The apparent axial ratio for the exponential bulge is 0.8. NGC 80. The decomposition of this galaxy agrees well in terms of scale with the results published by us earlier based on less deep data [35]. The outer regions can be fit with an exponential profile beginning at a distance of 30 (11 kpc). The inner disk dominates at radii 10-20 (4­7 kpc). After subtracting the two disks, the residual brightness at r = 2-8 can be fit with a circular exponential bulge. Excess brightness is visible at r = 5-7 , coincident with the location of a ring of relatively young