Bibcode
Ferré-Mateu, A.; Trujillo, I.
Bibliographical reference
Stellar Populations – Planning for the Next Decade, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 262, p. 331-332
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2010
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Description
At high-z the most superdense massive galaxies are supposed to be the
result of gas-rich mergers resulting in compact remnant (Khochfar &
Silk (2006); Naab et al. (2007)). After this, dry mergers are expected
to be the mechanism that moves these very massive galaxies towards the
current stellar mass size relation. Whitin these merging scenarios, a
non-negligible fraction (1-10%) of these galaxies is expected to survive
since that epoch retaining their compactness and presenting old stellar
populations in the past universe.Using the NYU Value-Added Galaxy
Catalog (DR6), we find only a tiny fraction of galaxies (~0.03%) with
re ≤ 1.5 kpc and M* ≥
8x1010M&sun; in the local Universe (z~0.2).
Surprisingly, they are relatively young (~2Gyr) and metal rich
([Z/H]~0.2) These results have been published in Trujillo et al. (2009)