Are dry mergers of ellipticals the way to reconcile model predictions with downsizing?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 486, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 763-769

  Pipino, A ^a   Matteucci, F ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; CURING; DRYING; EMPLOYMENT; GALAXIES; MERGING; METALLIZING;

BUILDING BLOCKS; BUILDING BLOCKS (BB); CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; EFFECTIVE RADIUS; ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; ELLIPTICALS; MASS RELATION; METALLICITY; MODEL PREDICTIONS; STAR FORMATION (SF);

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 47749125301     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:200809395     Document Type: Article

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