Fig. 6.
Evolution of stellar mass for main galaxy as function of time. The total stellar mass (black solid line) has been decomposed into the in situ mass (blue dotted line), that is, stars formed in the main galaxy, and accreted mass (red dashed line), that is, stars formed in a companion galaxy and then accreted into the main galaxy.
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