Major mergers are not significant drivers of star formation or morphological transformation around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation
We investigate the contribution of major mergers (mass ratios > 1:5) to stellar mass growth and morphological transformations around the epoch of peak cosmic star formation (z ~ 2). We visually classify a complete sample of massive (M > 1010M_) galaxies at this epoch, drawn from the CANDELS su...
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Oxford University Press
2017
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43603/ |