Confirmation of the remarkable compactness of massive quiescent galaxies at Z ∼ 2.3: Early-type galaxies did not form in a simple monolithic collapse

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 677, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Van Dokkum, Pleter G ^a   Franx, Marijn ^b   Kriek, Mariska ^c   Holden, Bradford ^d   Illingworth, Garth D ^d   Magee, Daniel ^d   Bouwens, Rychard ^d   Marchesini, Danilo ^a   Quadri, Ryan ^b   Rudnick, Greg ^e   Taylor, Edward N ^b   Toft, Sune ^f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e NATIONAL OPTICAL ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosmology: Observations; Galaxies: Evolution; Galaxies: Formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749083696     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/587874     Document Type: Article

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