Fig. 3.
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Example of the procedure to estimate the i-band background of NGC 5831. The solid black line shows the radial profile of the flux in the input image, azimuthally averaged in circular bins of 50 pixels. The shaded gray area is the region where the background is estimated. The dashed red line represents the background estimated with the method described in the text.
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