Evidence for merging or disruption of red galaxies from the evolution of their clustering

Martin White; Zheng Zheng; Michael Brown; Arjun Dey; Buell T Jannuzi

doi:10.1086/512015

Evidence for merging or disruption of red galaxies from the evolution of their clustering

Martin White
, Zheng Zheng
, Michael Brown
, Arjun Dey
, Buell T Jannuzi

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Abstract

The formation and evolution of massive red galaxies form a crucial test of theories of galaxy formation based on hierarchical assembly. In this Letter we use observations of the clustering of luminous red galaxies from the Bootes field and N-body simulations to argue that about (1)/(3) of the most luminous satellite galaxies appear to 1 3 undergo merging or disruption within massive halos between and z similar or equal to 0.9 and 0.5.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69 - 72
Number of pages	4
Journal	The Astrophysical Journal
Volume	655
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1086/512015
Publication status	Published - 2007

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