Mergers with a 1:100 mass ratio. Displayed is the distribution in the E − L_z space of stars for the simulation of a 2 × (1:10) + 8 × (1:100) merger. In the first row, all stars (first column), in-situ stars (second column), all accreted stars (third column) and all accreted stars from the 1:10 mass ratio mergers (last column) are shown. In the second row, the distribution of all accreted stars from 1:100 mass ratio mergers is shown (first column), followed by the distribution of the two 1:10 mass ratio satellites, separately (second and third columns). The distribution in the E − L_z space of some of the 1:100 mass ratio satellites is also shown separately (second row, last column and all panels in the third row). Finally, in the last row, the fractional contribution to the total distribution of in-situ stars (first column), all accreted stars (second column), all accreted stars from 1:10 mergers (third column) and all accreted stars from 1:100 mergers (last column) is shown. In all panels, the E − L_z distributions are shown after evolving the 8 × (1:100) satellites for 10 Gyr, interacting with the remnant of the 2 × (1:10) merger (see Sect. 4.4).