A high merger fraction in the rich cluster MS 1054-03 at z = 0.83: Direct evidence for hierarchical formation of massive galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 520, Issue 2 PART 2, 1999, Pages

  Van Dokkum, Pieter G ^a,b   Franx, Marijn ^b   Fabricant, Daniel ^c   Kelson, Daniel D ^d   Illingworth, Garth D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: clusters: individual (MS 1054 03); Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033456822     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312154     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Barnes, J. E. 1999, in AIP Conf. Proc. 470, After the Dark Ages: When Galaxies Were Young, ed. S. S. Holt & E. P. Smith (New York: AIP), 191
2. Baugh, C. M., Cole, S., & Frenk, C. S. 1996, MNRAS, 283, 1361
3. Bower, R. G., Lucey, J. R., & Ellis, R. S. 1992, MNRAS, 254, 601
4. Butcher, H., & Oemler, A. 1978, ApJ, 219, 18
5. Couch, W. J., Barger, A. J., Smail, I., Ellis, R. S., & Sharples, R. M. 1998, ApJ, 497, 188 (C98)
6. Donahue, M., Voit, G. M., Gioia, I., Lupino, G., Hughes, J. P., & Stocke, J. T. 1998, ApJ, 502, 550
7. Dressler, A. 1980, ApJ, 236, 351
8. Dressler, A., et al. 1997, ApJ, 490, 577
9. Dressler, A., Oemler, A., Jr., Sparks, W. B., & Lucas, R. A. 1994, ApJ, 435, L23 (D94)
10. Ellis, R. S., Smail, I., Dressier, A., Couch, W. J., Oemler, A., Jr., Butcher, H., & Sharples, R. M. 1997, ApJ, 483, 582
11. Jørgensen, I., & Franx, M. 1994, ApJ, 433, 553
12. Kauffmann, G. 1996, MNRAS, 281, 487
13. Kauffmann, G., & Charlot, S. 1998, MNRAS, 297, L23
14. Lavery, R. J., & Henry, J. P. 1988, ApJ, 330, 596 (LH88)
15. Lavery, R. J., Pierce, M. J., & McClure, R. D. 1992, AJ, 104, 2067 (LPM92)
16. Liu, C. T., & Kennicutt, R. C., Jr. 1995, ApJ, 450, 547
17. Lubin, L. M., Postman, M., Oke, J. B., Ratnatunga, K. U., Gunn, J. E., Hoessel, J. G., & Schneider, D. P. 1998, AJ, 116, 584
18. Merritt, D. 1984, ApJ, 276, 26
19. Oke, J. B., et al. 1995, PASP, 107, 375
20. Patton, D. R., Pritchet, C. J., Yee, H. K. C., Ellingson, E., & Carlberg, R. G. 1997, ApJ, 475, 29
21. Rix, H.-W. R., & White, S. D. M. 1989, MNRAS, 240, 941
22. Roos, N., & Aarseth, S. J. 1982, A&A, 114, 41
23. Searle, L., Sargent, W. L. W., & Bagnuolo, W. G. 1973, ApJ, 179, 427
24. Stanford, S. A., Eisenhardt, P. R., & Dickinson, M. 1998, ApJ, 492, 461
25. Toomre, A., & Toomre, J. 1972, ApJ, 178, 623
26. Tran, K.-V. H., Kelson, D. D., van Dokkum, P. G., Franx, M., Illingworth, G. D., & Magee, D. 1999, ApJ, in press
27. van Dokkum, P. G. 1999, Ph.D. thesis, Groningen Univ.
28. van Dokkum, P. G., Franx, M., Kelson, D. D., Illingworth, G. D. I., Fisher, D., & Fabricant, D. 1998a, ApJ, 500, 714
29. _. 1998b, ApJ, 504, L17
30. Worthey, G. 1994, ApJS, 95, 107