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Peralta de Arriba, L.; Balcells, M.; Trujillo, I.; Falcón-Barroso, J.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics IX, Proceedings of the XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 18-22, 2016, in Bilbao, Spain, ISBN 978-84-606-8760-3. S. Arribas, A. Alonso-Herrero, F. Figueras, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, A. Sánchez-Lavega, S. Pérez-Hoyos (eds.), 2017, p. 290-290
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Description
Most massive galaxies have grown their sizes during cosmic time. Several
mechanisms have been proposed to explain this growth, being minor
mergers the most promising way. The key feature of this mechanism is
that it can reproduce in a very efficient way the observed size growth.
The number of satellites around the massive galaxies has also been used
to support observationally minor-merging mechanism; however, this
evidence has a big uncertainty because a merger time scale needs to be
assumed. In this poster we will use velocity dispersion measurements at
high redshift as an opportunity to explore the structural properties of
massive galaxies. This will allow us to constrain the different
evolutionary mechanisms, and in particular to check whether minor
mergers remain as the most favoured growth channel.