A direct measurement of galaxy major and minor merger rates and stellar mass accretion histories at $z<3$ using galaxy pairs in the REFINE survey

Christopher J. Conselice, Carl J. Mundy, Leonardo Ferreira +1

We measure the role of major and minor mergers in forming the stellar masses of galaxies over $0<z<3$ using a combination of $\sim 3.25$ deg${}^2$ of the deepest ground based near-…