Top and middle panels: model maps of the background components and LMC components of the emissivity model in the 0.2–100 GeV band. Black dots indicate the positions of background sources in the field but outside the LMC boundaries (see Sect. 3.1). Both maps have 0.1° × 0.1° pixels and were smoothed with a Gaussian kernel with σ = 0.2°. Colours are displayed on a square-root scale. Bottom panel: residual counts map in the 0.2–100 GeV range, after subtracting the fitted emissivity model. Colours are displayed on a linear scale. White lines are defined in Fig. 1.