Newborn spheroids at high redshift: When and how did the dominant, old stars in today's massive galaxies form?
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2013
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Kaviraj, S
Cohen, S. H.
Ellis, Richard S
Peirani, S
Windhorst, Rogier A
O’Connell, R. W.
Silk, Joe
Whitmore, Bradley
Hathi, Nimish P
Ryan, R E
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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We study ~330 massive (M* > 109.5M⊙), newborn spheroidal galaxies (SGs) around the epoch of peak star formation (1 < z < 3) to explore the high-redshift origin of SGs and gain insight into when and how the old stellar populations that dominate today's U
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Keywords: Cd; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: formation; Galaxies: high-redshift; Galaxies: interactions
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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