Fig. 2.

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Illustration of how to measure the strength of non-axisymmetric disk structures. The left two panels show the star-cleaned r-band image of NGC 447 and UGC 9476. The dashed blue ellipse in the image of NGC 447 denotes its bar (Appendix B). The right panels show radial profiles of Atot. The galactocentric radius at which the bulge terminates and the disk starts to dominate (1.5 × Rbul/(1 − ϵdisk), where ϵdisk is the disk-averaged ellipticity) is indicated by the dotted line. The bar radius is indicated by the dashed line for NGC 447. The R90%, enclosing the majority of structure, is indicated by the solid line. We compute sdisk as the mean Atot over the disk-dominated region between 1.5 × Rbul/(1 − ϵdisk) and R90%, and define the strength of non-axisymmetric disk structure as 2 + log sdisk. The disk-dominated region for barred galaxies contains spirals and bars, but that for unbarred galaxies contains only spirals.
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