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most citedThe Outer Disks of Early-Type Galaxies. I. Surface-Brightness Profiles of Barred Galaxies

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Stellar Nuclear Rings in Barred Galaxies: Fossils of Past Circumnuclear Starbursts?

Peter Erwin, Juan Carlos Vega Beltran, John Beckman

We have found four barred S0 galaxies -- NGC 936, NGC 3945, NGC 4340, and NGC 4371 -- which contain smooth, luminous, purely stellar nuclear rings within their bars. These rings ha…