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Pointed isophotes in elliptical galaxies are thought to reflect the presence of a faint nearly edge-on disk imbedded in the spheroid of the galaxies. This hypothesis has been suggested by the analysis of surface brightness profiles (e.g. Capaccioli, 1987) and by the fact that ellipticals with pointed isophotes show kinematical, radio and X-ray properties similar to those of SO-galaxies (e.g. Bender, 1990). Especially, disky ellipticals generally appear to be isotropic oblate rotators (Carter, 1987; Bender, 1988 and Nieto et al., 1988).
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Scorza, C., Bender, R. (1992). Photometric Properties of Disks in Elliptical Galaxies. In: Longo, G., Capaccioli, M., Busarello, G. (eds) Morphological and Physical Classification of Galaxies. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 178. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2522-2_35
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