GEMS: The destiny of blue spheroidal galaxies
One of the key predictions of hierarchical galaxy formation models is that a significant fraction of elliptical galaxies form in late merging events. One of the most important diagnostics of such an assembly is the existence of blue spheroidal galaxies, which have spheroid-dominated morphologies and...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2006
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