TY - JOUR AU - Borlaff, Alejandro AU - Eliche Moral, María del Carmen AU - Rodríguez Pérez, Cristina AU - Querejeta, Miguel AU - Tapia, Tinidad AU - Pérez González, Pablo Guillermo AU - Zamorano Calvo, Jaime AU - Gallego Maestro, Jesús AU - Beckman, John PY - 2004 DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201424299 SN - 0004-6361 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51331 T2 - Astronomy and astrophysics AB - Context. Lenticular galaxies (S0’s) are more likely to host antitruncated (Type-III) stellar discs than galaxies of later Hubble types. Major mergers are popularly considered too violent mechanisms to form these breaks.Aims. We have investigated... LA - eng PB - EDP Sciencies KW - Galaxies: formation KW - Galaxies: fundamental parameters KW - Galaxies: evolution KW - Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular KW - cD KW - Galaxies: interactions KW - Galaxies: structure TI - Formation of SO galaxies through mergers: antitruncated stellar discs resulting from major mergers TY - journal article VL - 570 ER -