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Figure 1: NGC 5953/54: Geometric profiles after ellipse fitting in free parameter mode and masking of the galaxies. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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Figure 2: Surface brightness and color profiles (masked companion). |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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Figure 3: Top left: full intensity B-band image. Top right: B-band contrast-enhanced image. Bottom left: J-band contrast-enhanced image. Bottom right: K-band contrast-enhanced image. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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Figure 4:
Top left: composite resolution [N II] image. Top right: continuum-subtracted
H
image. Bottom left: H
contrast-enhanced image. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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Figure 6: The HST (V/R) and H-band surface brightness profiles of NGC 5953. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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\end{figure}](/articles/aa/full/2003/49/aa3856/img61.gif) |
Figure 8: [N II] isovelocity map for NGC 5953. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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Figure 9: [N II] isovelocity map for NGC 5954. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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Figure 11: [N II] rotation curve for NGC 5953. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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\end{figure}](/articles/aa/full/2003/49/aa3856/img84.gif) |
Figure 12: [N II] rotation curve for NGC 5954. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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\end{figure}](/articles/aa/full/2003/49/aa3856/img146.gif) |
Figure 5: NGC 5953/54. Top left: B-V color index map. Top right: B-I color index map. Bottom left: B-J color index map. Bottom right: B-K color index map. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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\end{figure}](/articles/aa/full/2003/49/aa3856/img147.gif) |
Figure 7: Upper panel: 1.5-m contrast-enhanced B-band image of NGC 5953 and a zoom of the corresponding central region as viewed from the (V/R) band WFPC2 in HST. Lower panel: 2.1-m contrast enhanced J-band image and a zoom of the central region as viewed from the H-band NICMOS in HST. Contrast-enhancing was applied to both V/R and H-band images from HST. All the images are oriented according to the astronomical convention. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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Figure 10: Set of channel maps from the raw [N II] cube overlaid on a gray-scale display of our B-band contrast-enhanced image. The contour levels are 0.97, 1.15, 2, 4, 6, and 8 times the rms noise. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text
![\begin{figure}
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\end{figure}](/articles/aa/full/2003/49/aa3856/img149.gif) |
Figure 13:
1.5-m OAN-SPM B-band contrast-enhanced image showing a schematic
representation of the observed features in NGC 5953/54. 1
 kpc
yielding a projected separation of  5.8 kpc. A zoom of the central parts
of NGC 5953 with the Hubble Space Telescope V/R band image is also shown. |
| Open with DEXTER | |
In the text