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Massive galaxies: born as disks, dead as spheroids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2013

Fernando Buitrago
Fernando Buitrago*
Affiliation:
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, EH9 3HJ, U.K. email: fb@roe.ac.uk University of Nottingham, School of Physics & Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K.
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Abstract

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Present day massive (Mstellar > 1011 M⊙) galaxies are composed mostly of early-type objects. To ascertain whether this was also the case at higher redshift, we have compiled over a thousand massive galaxies at 0 < z < 3 with HST imaging and spectroscopic redshifts for the majority of them. We have also analyzed using 3D spectroscopy another sample of 10 massive galaxies at z = 1.4. Both works highlight the progressive change between a late-type/peculiar nature at z > 2 and a predominance of early-type morphologies only since z = 1.

Keywords

galaxies: evolutiongalaxies: high-redshiftgalaxies: structure
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 8 , Symposium S295: The intriguing life of massive galaxies , August 2012 , pp. 171
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2013 

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