...law

de Jong (1996) has recently shown that bulge surface-brightness profiles actually obey a range of laws in which the index to which r is raised varies considerably and is often much higher than 0.25.

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...surfaces

The latter surfaces having been integrated to very large radial distances using Simpson's rule with very small radial distance intervals.

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