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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 672, Issue 1, Pages 146-152Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/523789
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galaxies : evolution; galaxies : high-redshift; galaxies : interactions; galaxies : structure
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19104004] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We present the results of NICMOS imaging of two massive galaxies photometrically selected to have old stellar populations at z similar to 2.5. Both galaxies are dominated by apparent disks of old stars, although one of them also has a small bulge comprising about one-third of the light at rest-frame 4800 angstrom. The presence of massive disks of old stars at high redshift means that at least some massive galaxies in the early universe have formed directly from the dissipative collapse of a large mass of gas. The stars formed in disks like these may have made significant contributions to the stellar populations of massive spheroids at the present epoch.
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