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A diagram illustrating the relative position of two galaxies during the merger. The blue plane represents the main galaxy, while the green plane represents the satellite galaxy and the gray plane represents the orbital plane, with corresponding colored vectors indicating the spin directions. The two orange vectors represent the position and velocity of the satellite galaxy relative to the main galaxy. This diagram is adapted from Figure 5 in Martin et al. (2018).

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