Fig. 1.
Randomly selected TNG major mergers before (top five rows outlined in blue) and after adding observational effects (bottom five rows outlined in red). Major mergers in the pre-merging phase are easier to identify by eye than mergers in the post-merging phase. Merging features such as tidal tails become much more difficult to identify once observational effects are included.
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