Bibcode
Hempel, A.; Cristóbal, D.; Balcells, M.; Prieto, M.; Abreu, D.; Trujillo, I.; Palmero, L. Dominguez; Lopez, C.
Bibliographical reference
PROBING STELLAR POPULATIONS OUT TO THE DISTANT UNIVERSE: CEFALU 2008, Proceedings of the International Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1111, pp. 199-202 (2009).
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2009
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Description
We study the morphology and masses of extremely red galaxies (EROs)
within the GOYA survey (Galaxy Origins and Young Assembly), by combining
optical data (UBVI) with near-infrared data (JKs). The
initial K-band selected catalogue contains some 2500 sources over 4.5
arcmin2, of which 113 sources have F814W-Ks>=4
and are classified as EROs. In order to make use of the higher spatial
resolution of the HST images, we limited our sample to objects which
have F814W-band detection. Employing a by-eye classification, we assign
one of the following classes to these objects: compact (39), bulge+disk
(13), pure disk (25) and irregular or merger candidates (14). For 16
objects we were unable to assign an unique class and an additional 6
objects were excluded from our sample for other reasons. Based on the
five morphological classes we look for distinct characteristics in the
stellar mass evolution and attempt to separate between a burst component
and a second star forming component, characterised by an exponential
declining star formation rate (SFR). The results show that the total
stellar masses do not differ significantly among the different
morphological types, each class has members with
M>1011Msolar. For most of the EROs the best fit
represents a single-age population, a second starforming component would
contain less than 10% of the total stellar mass.