Combined stellar surface brightness profile of Cen A from Dufour et al. (1979) and Rejkuba et al. (2022) and its MGE decomposition. The left panel shows the profile along the semimajor axis and the right along the semiminor axis. The blue points show the observed 2D profile we generated with Eq. (6) in the region highlighted by the grey solid line (D+79 fitting region) and Eq. (8) in the outer regions highlighted with the grey dashed line (R+22 fitting region). The red line shows the resulting MGE fit to the profile and the faint coloured lines are the individual Gaussian components. The blue vertical bars at the bottom of the figure show the positions of the kinematic tracers.