Dependence of |$\langle \kappa \rangle _{\rm Mg\,\small {II}}$| on the azimuthal angle in different projected distance intervals for passive (left) and [O ii]-emitting LRGs (right). The azimuthal angle is measured with respect to the major axis of the LRGs. Circles represent LRGs within a projected distance d of 0 < d ≤ 50 kpc from a background QSO sightline, triangles represent 50 < d ≤ 100 kpc, squares represent 100 < d ≤ 200 kpc and diamonds represent 200 < d ≤ 500 kpc. The horizontal error bars show the full range in projected distance of each bin and vertical error bars represent the 68 per cent confidence interval. Note that we have zoomed in along the y-axis in the left-hand panel to illustrate better the range of observed |$\langle \kappa \rangle _{\rm Mg\,\small {II}}$| for the passive galaxies.