Projection-Enhanced Disk Breaks: Evidence from Deep Photometric Decomposition

arXiv:2607.00953 · astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-07-01 · Read on arXiv

Sergey S. Savchenko, Ilia V. Chugunov, Alexander A. Marchuk, Vladimir P. Reshetnikov, Matvey D. Kozlov, Dmitry I. Makarov, Aleksandra V. Antipova, Anastasia M. Sypkova

astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-07-01

Comments: 29 pages, 21 figures; Accepted to the special issue "Unveiling the Structural Properties of Galaxies Using Contemporary Wide-Field Surveys" in MDPI Galaxies

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Dust Attenuation — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Dark Energy Survey — 2× in this paper
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — 2× in this paper
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture Photometry — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Down-bending Breaks in Galactic Disks Are an Intrinsic Byproduct of Inside-out Growth
• Deep Surface Brightness Profiles of Spiral Galaxies from SDSS Stripe82: Touching Stellar Halos
• The Revised Flat Galaxy Catalogue
• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• The shape of galaxy disks: how the scale height increases with galactocentric distance
• The stars and gas in outer parts of galaxy disks: Extended or truncated -- flat or warped?

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