TY - JOUR AU - Querejeta, M. AU - Eliche Moral, María del Carmen AU - Tapia, T. AU - Borlaff, A. AU - Rodríguez Pérez, C. AU - Zamorano Calvo, Jaime AU - Gallego Maestro, Jesús PY - 2015 DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201424303 SN - 0004-6361 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/33964 T2 - Astronomy & Astrophysics AB - Context. Observations reveal a strong structural coupling between bulge and disc in S0 galaxies, which seems difficult to explain if they have formed from supposedly catastrophic events such as major mergers. Aims. We face this question by quantifying... LA - eng PB - EDP Sciencies KW - Dry minor mergers KW - Telescope nicmos observations KW - Similar-to 2 KW - Spiral galaxies KW - Star-formation KW - Secular evolution KW - Galactic bulges KW - E/S0 galaxies KW - Virgo cluster KW - Stellar discs TI - Formation of S0 galaxies through mergers. Bulge-disc structural coupling resulting from major mergers TY - journal article VL - 573 ER -