Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
An inner-truncated disk (ITD) brightness profile is one in which the inward extrapolation of the outer disk surface brightness significantly exceeds the observed surface brightness in a region near the galaxy center. Freeman (1970) identified these profiles as Type II profiles. Fourteen of Freeman’s (1970) sample of 36 external galaxies are designated as Type II (ITD); seven of the ITD’s are classified as barred galaxies and ITD’s are found at all morphological types.
Ohta, Hamabe, & Wakamatsu (1990) report that luminosity profiles perpendicular to the bars of six early-type galaxies all exhibit the Freeman Type II shape, while the feature is lost when azimuthally averaged profiles of the same galaxies are studied. They postulate that the bar formation resulted in an azimuthal redistribution of the stars, but no net radial redistribution.