Why do extremely massive disc galaxies exist today?
Galaxy merger histories correlate strongly with stellar mass, largely regardless of morphology. Thus, at fixed stellar mass, spheroids and discs share similar assembly histories, both in terms of the frequency of mergers and the distribution of their mass ratios. Since mergers drive disc-to-spheroid...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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