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Fig. 5.

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S0-like remnants resulting from major mergers after ~3–3.5 Gyr of total evolution, showing global relaxed bulge+disc morphologies characteristic of real S0s and no traces of their past merger just ~1–2 Gyr after the full merger. Their face-on and edge-on V-band mock images are represented using a logarithmic grayscale that saturates the central regions to highlight the outskirts (first and third rows of panels). Below them, we have represented the same views of each remnant, but smoothing the images with a Gaussian with σ = 10 pixels (equivalent to 2.5″) and using a logarithmic colour scale to emphasise the different brightness level of the different components (second and fourth rows). The location of Rbulge, Rlens, and Rlim have been marked in the colour images in each case, using white, orange, and cyan thick dashed lines. Some isophotes have been over-plotted (yellow) to remark the real extent of the components in the original images difficult to appreciate due to the grainy structure of the outer disc. The visual morphological types assigned to the remnants are indicated in the top labels. The FoV is 100 × 100 kpc2 and μlim(V) = 26 mag arcsec−2 (S/N = 5) in all cases.

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