The Redshift Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in COSMOS: Do Massive Early-Type Galaxies Form by Dry Mergers?

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C. Scarlata et al. 2007 ApJS 172 494 doi:10.1086/517972

The Redshift Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies in COSMOS: Do Massive Early-Type Galaxies Form by Dry Mergers?^*

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C. Scarlata¹, C. M. Carollo¹, S. J. Lilly¹, R. Feldmann¹, P. Kampczyk¹, A. Renzini², A. Cimatti³, C. Halliday³, E. Daddi⁴, M. T. Sargent¹, A. Koekemoer⁵, N. Scoville⁶, J.-P. Kneib⁷, A. Leauthaud⁷, R. Massey⁶, J. Rhodes^6,8, L. Tasca⁷, P. Capak⁶, H. J. McCracken⁹, B. Mobasher⁵, Y. Taniguchi¹⁰, D. Thompson^6,11, M. Ajiki¹², H. Aussel^13,14, T. Murayama¹², D. B. Sanders¹³, S. Sasaki^12,15, Y. Shioya¹⁵ and M. Takahashi^12,15

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¹ Department of Physics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
² Dipartimento di Astronomia, Universitá di Padova, I-35122 Padova, Italy
³ INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, I-50125 Firenze, Italy
⁴ National Optical Astronomy Observatory, Tucson, AZ 85726
⁵ Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
⁶ California Institute of Technology, MC 105-24, Pasadena, CA 91125
⁷ Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, BP 8, 13376 Marseille Cedex 12, France
⁸ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA 91109
⁹ Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, UMR 7095, 75014 Paris, France
¹⁰ Subaru Telescope, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Hilo, HI 96720
¹¹ Large Binocular Telescope Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
¹² Astronomical Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Aoba, Sendai 980-8578, Japan
¹³ Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822
¹⁴ Service d'Astrophysique, CEA/Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
¹⁵ Physics Department, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan

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