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Fig. 8

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Vertical stellar surface density profiles of a post-merger thick stellar disk 0.5 Gyr after the completion of a single dissipationless minor merger with a mass ratio of 20:1 (upper panel), and two consecutive dissipationless minor mergers with a mass ratio of 10:1 (lower panel). We show profiles at four different exponential disk scale lengths, rd, from the galaxy center along the major axis of the galactic mid-plane. Superposed on these distributions are the fitted double sech functions and their corresponding scale heights (in red).

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