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The role of major mergers in the size growth of intermediate-mass spheroids

Authors :
Joseph Silk
Seth H. Cohen
Robert W. O'Connell
Rogier A. Windhorst
Anton M. Koekemoer
Sugata Kaviraj
Simona Mei
Nimish P. Hathi
Michael A. Dopita
Michael J. Rutkowski
Francesco Shankar
Sébastien Peirani
Marc Huertas-Company
R. E. Ryan
University of Oxford
Galaxies, Etoiles, Physique, Instrumentation (GEPI)
Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris
Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
CEZ - Bergerie nationale de Rambouillet
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris (IAP)
Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM)
Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Space Telescope Science Institute (STSci)
University of Oxford [Oxford]
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)
Source :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 443 (2), pp.1861-1866. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stu1220⟩, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P-Oxford Open Option A, 2014, 443 (2), pp.1861-1866. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stu1220⟩
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
HAL CCSD, 2014.

Abstract

We study of the role of major mergers (mass ratios >1:4) in driving size growth in high-redshift (1 10^10.7 MSun SGs at z<br />Comment: MNRAS in press

Subjects

Subjects :
Physics
[PHYS]Physics [physics]
Spheroid
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy merger
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Peculiar galaxy
Physics::Fluid Dynamics
Space and Planetary Science
Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
Galaxy formation and evolution
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00358711 and 13652966
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 443 (2), pp.1861-1866. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stu1220⟩, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P-Oxford Open Option A, 2014, 443 (2), pp.1861-1866. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stu1220⟩
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....f6f85bdfbaa4977924cf79eb8a2b93d2

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