Bibcode
Eliche-Moral, M. C.; Prieto, M.; Balcells, M.; Abreu, D.; Barro, G.; Cristóbal-Hornillos, D.; Domínguez Palmero, L.; Erwin, P.; Gallego, J.; Guzmán, R.; Hempel, A.; López-Sanjuan, C.; Pérez-González, P. G.; Zamorano, J.
Bibliographical reference
Fourth Science Meeting with the GTC (Eds. C. Muñoz-Tuñón & J. M. Rodríguez-Espinosa) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (Serie de Conferencias) Vol. 42, pp. 24-25 (2013) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2013
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Description
We have studied the main evolutionary paths among the galaxy types
residing on the massive end of the Red Sequence and nearby locations on
the Green Valley during the last ~9 Gyr. The morphological and star
formation properties of a sample of these galaxies at 0.35×10^10 M_⊙ have been analysed. We
present direct observational evidence for the first time of the
existence of two main evolutionary paths among the different red galaxy
types since z~1.5, which provide some clues on the nature of the
processes that have governed the assembly of present-day massive
quiescent galaxies. The results are in excellent agreement with the
hierarchical evolutionary framework proposed in the Eliche-Moral et al.
(2010) model. Data from SHARDS (one of the ESO/GTC Large Programmes
approved in 2009A) will complement and improve the present findings,
shedding some light into many of the still unsettled questions
concerning the migration of galaxies from the Blue Cloud to the Red
Sequence at z<1.5.