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Minor versus major mergers: the stellar mass growth of massive galaxies from z=3 using number density selection techniques

Ownsworth, Jamie R. ; Conselice, Christopher J. ; Mortlock, Alice ; Hartley, William G. ; Almaini, Omar ; Duncan, Ken ; Mundy, Carl J.

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, vol. 445, no. 3, p. 2198-2213

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    Title
    • Minor versus major mergers: the stellar mass growth of massive galaxies from z=3 using number density selection techniques
    Author
    • Ownsworth, Jamie R.. University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    • Conselice, Christopher J.. University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    • Mortlock, Alice. University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    • Hartley, William G.. University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    • Almaini, Omar. University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    • Duncan, Ken. University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    • Mundy, Carl J.. University of Nottingham, School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK
    Document Type
    • Postprint
    Language
    • English
    Published in
    • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, vol. 445, no. 3, p. 2198-2213. Oxford University Press
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    OAI-PMH Identifier
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:301864
    Summary
    We present a study on the stellar mass growth of the progenitors of local massive galaxies with a variety of number density selections with n≤1×10−4 Mpc−3 (corresponding to M*=1011.24 M⊙ at z=0.3) in the redshift range 0.3