Structure of classical bulges and pseudobulges

We show that the distribution of bulge Sersic indices, n_b_, is bimodal, and this bimodality correlates with the morphology of the bulge. Pseudobulges have n_b_~<2 and classical bulges have n_b_>~2 with little to no overlap.

Also, pseudobulges do not follow the correlations of Sersic index with structural parameters or the photometric projections of the fundamental plane in the same way that classical bulges and elliptical galaxies do. We find that pseudobulges are systematically flatter than classical bulges and thus more disk-like in both their morphology and shape.