Comparison of our merger rates (per galaxy h ₇₀ Gyr ⁻¹) under assumption of t _merge = t _{KW, i} at 0.03 < z < 0.15 with the merger rates of Maller et al. (2006) at 0 < z < 0.5. The open triangles on the dashed lines are our results, and the thin dotted lines are the best-fit result calculated from Equation (5) of Maller et al. (2006). Both of our mass ratios are m/ M > 0.5. Please note that the results of Maller et al. (2006) are estimated from a flat Ω _m = 0.4 cosmology with σ ₈ = 0.8, a Hubble constant H ₀ ≡ 100  h km s ⁻¹ Mpc ⁻¹ with h = 0.65, a baryon content Ω _b = 0.047, and a spectral index n = 0.93. This difference of the two assumptions might lead to the difference of the two slopes.