The mass assembly history of spheroidal galaxies: Did newly formed systems arise via major mergers?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 665, Issue 1 PART 2, 2007, Pages

  Bundy, Kevin ^a   Treu, Tommaso ^b   Ellis, Richard S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: kinematics and dynamics; Galaxies: luminosity function, mass function

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548304673     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519526     Document Type: Article

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