Size evolution of massive galaxies

Navarro-González, J.; Quilis, V.; Trujillo, I.; Cenarro, A. J.
Referencia bibliográfica

Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VI, Proceedings of the IX Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Madrid, September 13 - 17, 2010, Eds.: M. R. Zapatero Osorio, J. Gorgas, J. Maíz Apellániz, J. R. Pardo, and A. Gil de Paz., p. 393-393

Fecha de publicación:
11
2011
Número de autores
4
Número de autores del IAC
0
Número de citas
0
Número de citas referidas
0
Descripción
We present the preliminary results of cosmological simulation focused on the study of the size and velocity dispersion time evolution. We have study the main morphological features of a sample of more that 200 galaxies having masses between 5 x 10^{10} M_&sun; and 5 x 10^{11} M_&sun;. We compared the results obtained from the analysis of the simulated sample with the observational data. The time evolution of size and velocity dispersion of simulated galaxies seems to go in the right direction, pointing observational results, leading to the conclusion that the cause of such morphological evolution could be due to the minor merger events and the