Fraction of X-ray emission from the intrinsic hot CGM for different levels of satellite contamination (misclassified centrals) in the total galaxy sample. The fraction of X-ray emission from the intrinsic hot CGM for misclassified central contamination fractions of 0.01 (dotted line), 0.1 (dash-dotted line), 0.3 (dashed line), and 0.5 (solid line) are shown for three different mass bins: MW-like galaxies with stellar-masses in 10^10.5−11 M_⊙ (left panel), 10^11−11.25 M_⊙ (middle panel), and 10^11.25−11.5 M_⊙ (right panel). The shaded regions around each curve correspond to the uncertainty of the mean profile obtained by bootstrapping. The vertical black solid line at 242 kpc in the left panel, 369 kpc in the middle panel, and 484.5 kpc in the right panel corresponds to the mean R_500c of the respective mass bins with the shaded area signifying the minimum and maximum values. We find that the contaminating effect of the misclassified centrals on the stacked profiles increases when the stellar mass decreases.