NGC 4472. Top panel: azimuthally averaged g-band profile from VEGAS compared to literature. The color code of the symbols mimicks the corresponding photometric bands. Arbitrary shifts have been used to match with the VEGAS profile. In particular, the B-band profile byMihos et al. (2013) has been shifted by −0.35 mag, the V band from Kormendy et al. (2009) and Janowiecki et al. (2010) by +0.35 mag, and the profile by Kim et al. (2000) by +0.92 mag. Bottom panel: (O–C) residuals of mean profiles from a best-fitting r^{1 / 4} model used only to remove the main gradient and facilitate comparison. The blue solid line plots the (O–C) residuals for the east-west photometric cross-section of the standard elliptical galaxy NGC 3379 from de Vaucouleurs & Capaccioli (1979). There are clear similarities: the bright core and a wavy trend overimposed on the smooth r^{1 / 4} trend.