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/20.500.14352/34224 T2 - Astronomy & 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 - 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 Antitruncated stellar discs resulting from major mergers TY - journal article VL - 570 ER -