Vertical density profiles of the post-merger stellar disk in a dissipative minor merger with f_gas = 0.2 (upper panel) and of an isolated “clumpy disk” galaxy with f_gas = 0.5 (lower panel). Profiles are shown at four different exponential disk scale lengths, r_d, from the galaxy center along the major axis of the galactic mid-plane. The best fitting sech(z) functions to these profiles and corresponding scale heights are also shown (in red).