Simulated profiles used as a test of our code performance. From the upper left to the lower right panels: symmetric exponential profile, exponential profile with ellipticity equal to 0.5 and position angle 0°, exponential profile with ellipticity equal to 0.5 and position angle 45°, de Vaucouleurs profile, asymmetric exponential profile after adding a noise corresponding to a 10σ detection limit 7 times fainter (noise in Tables A.1 and A.2) and 3 times fainter than the fake galaxy flux. They were generated by running the MKOBJECT task in iraf.artdata and noise was added by running the MKNOISE task in iraf.artdata.