Fig. 5

Edge-on and face-on particle distributions of the two most massive disks before the merger (left) up to around 5 Gyr after the first pericenter of the satellite (6 Gyr; right) in steps of 2 Gyr. The orbit of the satellite has an inclination of 60 degrees. The top two panels are for the most massive disk (disk1), and the bottom two for the intermediate disk (disk2), both with z0 = 0.1Rd initially. The first and third rows show the disks edge-on and the second and fourth rows show the disks face-on. To show the features better we plot 5% of the particles within 0.5 kpc h-1, 10% for radii between 0.5 and 1.0 kpc h-1, 20% for radii between 1.0 and 1.5 kpc h-1, and 50% with radii between 1.5 and 2.0 kpc h-1; every particle is plotted for larger radii.
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