Fig. 7

Evolution in the MK(disk)-reff (left) and MK(disk)-MK(bulge) (right) planes driven by our minor merger experiments, compared to the observational distributions of S0s and spirals by L10. The straight lines represent the best fits for S0s (solid lines), S0/a+Sa (dotted-dashed lines), and Sab-Sbc galaxies (dashed lines) obtained by L10 in each diagram, all with statistically significant rank correlation coefficients. The blue shaded region in the right panel indicates the locations in the plane that are covered by our models with a different mass scaling for each location. Consult the legend for the observational data in the figure. Growth vectors have been plotted for the models, but the evolution induced by the mergers in the planes is negligible. The legend for the models is the same as in Fig. 1.
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