g′ band image centered on NGC 4696 obtained at the Magellan telescope. The field-of-view (shown in green in Fig. 1) is of ∼8.795 × 11.494 arcmin², which corresponds to ∼109 × 142 kpc², with the north pointing the upward direction and the east in the leftward direction. The green crosses show the positions of the 5 small companions of NGC 4696 for which we calculated the models of the surface brightness distribution (Table 3).