Barway, SudhanshuKembhavi, A.K.Wadadekar, Yogeshet al.2012-03-062012-03-062007-03-27http://hdl.handle.net/11007/639We investigate the correlation between the bulge effective radius (re) and disk scale length (rd), in the near-infrared K band for lenticular galaxies in the field and in clusters. We find markedly different relations between the two parameters as a function of luminosity. Lenticulars with total absolute magnitude fainter than MT = −24.5 show a positive correlation, in line with predictions of secular formation processes for the pseudo bulges of late-type disk galaxies. But brighter lenticulars with MT < −24.5 show an anti-correlation, indicating that they formed through a different mechanism. The available data are insufficient to reliably determine the effect of galaxy environment on this correlation.enGalaxiesPhotometry — GalaxiesFormation — GalaxiesFundamental parametersArticle