Major merging history in CANDELS. I. Evolution of the incidence of massive galaxy–galaxy pairs from z = 3 to z ∼ 0

Major merging history in CANDELS. I. Evolution of the incidence of massive galaxy–galaxy pairs from z = 3 to z ∼ 0

The rate of major galaxy–galaxy merging is theoretically predicted to steadily increase with redshift during the peak epoch of massive galaxy development (1 ≤ z ≤ 3). We use close-pair statistics to objectively study the incidence of massive galaxies (stellar M1 > 2 × 1010 M⊙) hosting major compa...

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Main Authors: Mantha, Kameswara Bharadwaj, McIntosh, Daniel H., Brennan, Ryan, Ferguson, Henry C., Kodra, Dritan, Newman, Jeffrey A., Rafelski, Marc, Somerville, Rachel S., Conselice, Christopher J., Cook, Joshua S., Hathi, Nimish P., Koo, David C., Lotz, Jennifer M., Simmons, Brooke D., Straughn, Amber N., Snyder, Gregory F., Wuyts, Stijn, Bell, Eric F, Dekel, Avishai, Kartaltepe, Jeyhan, Kocevski, Dale D., Koekemoer, Anton M., Lee, Seong-Kook, Lucas, Ray A., Pacifici, Camilla, Peth, Michael A., Barro, Guillermo, Dahlen, Tomas, Finkelstein, Steven L., Fontana, Adriano, Galametz, Audrey, Grogin, Norman A., Guo, Yicheng, Mobasher, Bahram, Nayyeri, Hooshang, Pérez-González, Pablo G., Pforr, Janine, Santini, Paola, Stefanon, Mauro, Wiklind, Tommy
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
Subjects:
galaxies: evolution
galaxies: high-redshift
galaxies: interactions
galaxies: statistics
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51768/

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