Comparing peanut-shaped `bulges' to N-body simulations and orbital   calculations
  We present a near-infrared K_n-band photometric study of edge-on galaxies with a box/peanut-shaped `bulge'. The morphology of the galaxies is analysed using unsharp masking and fits to the vertical surface brightness profiles, and the results are compared to N-body simulations and orbital calculations of barred galaxies. Both theoretical approaches reproduce the main structures observed. 
G. Aronica (1), E. Athanassoula (2), M. Bureau (3), A. Bosma (2),   R.-J. Dettmar (1), D. Vergani (4), M. Pohlen (5) ((1) As...