TY - JOUR AU - Borlaff, Alejandro AU - Eliche Moral, María del Carmen AU - Rodríguez Pérez, Cristina AU - Querejeta, Miguel AU - Tapia, Trinidad AU - Pérez González, Pablo Guillermo AU - Zamorano Calvo, Jaime AU - Gallego Maestro, Jesús AU - Beckman, John PY - 2014 DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201424299 SN - 0004-6361 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34790 T2 - Astronomy & Astrophysics AB - Context. Lenticular galaxies (S0s) are more likely to host antitruncated (Type III) stellar discs than galaxies of later Hubble types. Major mergers are popularly considered too violent to make these breaks.Aims. We have investigated whether major... LA - eng PB - EDP Sciencies KW - Dry minor mergers KW - Surface-brightness profiles KW - Driven star-formation KW - Similar-to 0.6 KW - Spiral galaxies KW - E/S0 galaxies KW - Kinematical data KW - Barred galaxies KW - Ionized-gas KW - Galactic bulges TI - Formation of S0 galaxies through mergers. V - Antitruncated stellar discs resulting from major mergers TY - journal article VL - 570 ER -