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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
卷 422, 期 3, 页码 2187-2194出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.20765.x
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: high-redshift
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [AYA2010-21322-C03-02]
- Spanish Programa Nacional de Astronomia y Astrofisica [AYA2009-10368, AYA2009-07723-E]
The accretion of minor satellites has been postulated as the most likely mechanism to explain the significant size evolution of massive galaxies over cosmic time. Using a sample of 629 massive (Mstar similar to 1011 M?) galaxies from the near-infrared Palomar/DEEP-2 survey, we explore what fraction of these objects have satellites with 0.01 < Msat/Mcentral < 1 (1:100) up to z= 1 and what fraction have satellites with 0.1 < Msat/Mcentral < 1 (1:10) up to z= 2 within a projected radial distance of 100 kpc. We find that the fraction of massive galaxies with satellites, after background correction, remains basically constant and close to 30 per cent for satellites with a mass ratio down to 1:100 up to z= 1, and close to 15 per cent for satellites with a 1:10 mass ratio up to z= 2. The family of spheroid-like massive galaxies presents a 23 times larger fraction of objects with satellites than the group of disc-like massive galaxies. A crude estimation of the number of 1:3 mergers a massive spheroid-like galaxy has experienced since z similar to 2 is around 2. For a disc-like galaxy this number decreases to similar to 1.
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