Timescales of major mergers from simulations of isolated binary galaxy collisions

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Comparison between τ_mer and τ_j05 measured from all the mergers depicted in Figs. 2 (left) and 3 (right). In all cases, τ_l05 < τ_mer, even when j(t) behaves as a purely monotonically decreasing function.

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