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Eliche-Moral, C.; Serrano-Borlaff, A.; Beckman, J. E.; Gutierrez, L.
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IAU General Assembly, Meeting #29, #2253634
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2015
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Borlaff et al. (2014) found that the characteristic photometric
parameters of antitruncated discs in S0 galaxies follow tight scaling
relations. Now, we have investigated if these scaling relations are
satisfied by Type-III galaxies of other morphological types using
published data in the R and Spitzer 3.6 microns bands. We have found
that the scaling relations (involving the inner and outer disc
scalelengths, their corresponding central surface brightnesses, and
break radii) are similar in: 1) both S0's and spirals of all galaxy
types from Sa to Scd, 2) both in optical and NIR, and 3) both for barred
and non-barred galaxies. Despite the wide diversity of mechanisms that
may have triggered the formation of antitruncated stellar discs, the
strong structural coupling implied by these scaling relations is
evidence for the existence of a basic physical process after their
formation in disc galaxies of all Hubble types, unrelated to bars.