Growth of Galactic Bulges by Mergers: I. Dense Satellites

J. A. L. Aguerri, M. Balcells, R. F. Peletier

Andredakis, Peletier & Balcells (1995) fit Sersic's law $\mu (r)\sim r^{1/n}$ to the bulges of the Balcells & Peletier (1994) galaxy sample, and infer that $n$ drops with morphologic…