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Paper: Nuclear Components in the Bulges of Disk Galaxies
Volume: 249, The Central Kiloparsec of Starbursts and AGN: the La Palma Connection
Page: 167
Authors: Balcells, Marc; Domínguez-Palmero, Lilian; Graham, Alister; Peletier, Reynier. F.
Abstract: By combining surface brightness profiles from images taken in the HST/NICMOS F160W and ground-based K bands, we have obtained NIR profiles for a well studied sample of inclined disk galaxies, spanning radial ranges from 20 pc to a few kpc. We fit PSF-convolved Sersic-plus-exponential laws to the profiles, and compare the results with the fits to the ground-based data alone. HST profiles show light excesses over the best-fit Sersic law in the inner sim1 arcsec. This is often as a result of inner power-law cusps similar to the inner profiles of intermediate-luminosity elliptical galaxies.
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