A Physically Motivated Framework to Compare Merger Timescales of Isolated Low- and High-Mass Galaxy Pairs Across Cosmic Time

Katie Chamberlain, Ekta Patel, Gurtina Besla +2

The merger timescales of isolated low-mass pairs ($10^8<{\mathrm{M}}_{\ast }<5\times 10^9{\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$) on cosmologically motivated orbits have not yet been studied in detail, though isolated hig…