Do Nuclear Star Clusters and Supermassive Black Holes Follow the Same Host-Galaxy Correlations?
Figure 1
An example of one of our 2D decompositions of NSC host galaxies—in this instance, the decomposition of the OSU BSGS -band image of NGC 7418, using an exponential disk, a Sérsic bulge (), a bar, and a point source for the NSC. (a): original -band image, with masking of bright stars (logarithmic brightness scaling). (b): residual image after subtracting best-fitting model image. (c): major-axis profile (black) along with the components of the model and their sum (purple). (d): same, but plotted with logarithmic major-axis scaling.
