How do minor mergers promote inside-out growth of ellipticals, transforming the size, density profile and dark matter fraction?

The dominant role of mergers in the size evolution of massive early-type galaxies sincez ~  1

(2012) C. López-Sanjuan et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

A LARGE POPULATION OF MASSIVE COMPACT POST-STARBURST GALAXIES ATz> 1: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SIZE EVOLUTION AND QUENCHING MECHANISM OF QUIESCENT GALAXIES

(2012) Katherine E. Whitaker et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE STELLAR INITIAL MASS FUNCTION IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES FROM ABSORPTION LINE SPECTROSCOPY. II. RESULTS

(2012) Charlie Conroy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE STELLAR INITIAL MASS FUNCTION IN EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES FROM ABSORPTION LINE SPECTROSCOPY. I. DATA AND EMPIRICAL TRENDS

(2012) Pieter G. van Dokkum et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SIZES AND SURFACE BRIGHTNESS PROFILES OF QUIESCENT GALAXIES ATz∼ 2

(2012) Daniel Szomoru et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DEEP ABSORPTION LINE STUDIES OF QUIESCENT GALAXIES ATz∼ 2: THE DYNAMICAL-MASS–SIZE RELATION AND FIRST CONSTRAINTS ON THE FUNDAMENTAL PLANE

(2012) S. Toft et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DEEP NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY OF PASSIVELY EVOLVING GALAXIES ATz≳ 1.4

(2012) M. Onodera et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MASS GROWTH AND MERGERS: DIRECT OBSERVATIONS OF THE LUMINOSITY FUNCTION OF LRG SATELLITE GALAXIES OUT TOz= 0.7 FROM SDSS AND BOSS IMAGES

(2012) Tomer Tal et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

EVOLUTION OF THE GALAXY–DARK MATTER CONNECTION AND THE ASSEMBLY OF GALAXIES IN DARK MATTER HALOS

(2012) Xiaohu Yang et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CAN MINOR MERGING ACCOUNT FOR THE SIZE GROWTH OF QUIESCENT GALAXIES? NEW RESULTS FROM THE CANDELS SURVEY

(2012) Andrew B. Newman et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ULTRA-DEEP SUB-KILOPARSEC VIEW OF NEARBY MASSIVE COMPACT GALAXIES

(2012) Ignacio Trujillo et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

A NEARBY ANALOG OFz∼ 2 COMPACT QUIESCENT GALAXIES WITH A ROTATING DISK

(2012) Fangzhou Jiang et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

SATELLITES AROUND MASSIVE GALAXIES SINCEz∼ 2: CONFRONTING THE MILLENNIUM SIMULATION WITH OBSERVATIONS

(2012) Vicent Quilis et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

Size and velocity-dispersion evolution of early-type galaxies in a Λ cold dark matter universe

(2012) Carlo Nipoti et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Satellites around massive galaxies since z∼ 2

(2012) E. Mármol-Queraltó et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies - III. Comparison with semi-analytic models of galaxy formation

(2012) Guinevere Kauffmann et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Close companions to brightest cluster galaxies: support for minor mergers and downsizing

(2012) Louise O. V. Edwards et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Relaxation and stripping - The evolution of sizes, dispersions and dark matter fractions in major and minor mergers of elliptical galaxies

(2012) Michael Hilz et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The growth of red sequence galaxies in a cosmological hydrodynamic simulation

(2012) J. M. Gabor et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

On the central stellar mass density and the inside-out growth of early-type galaxies

(2012) P. Saracco et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Building galaxies by accretion and in situ star formation

(2012) C. N. Lackner et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Early-type galaxies have been the predominant morphological class for massive galaxies since only z ∼ 1

(2012) Fernando Buitrago et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Shallow dark matter cusps in galaxy clusters

(2012) Chervin F. P. Laporte et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The ATLAS3Dproject - XI. Dense molecular gas properties of CO-luminous early-type galaxies★

(2012) Alison Crocker et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The sizes, masses and specific star formation rates of massive galaxies at 1.3 < z < 1.5: strong evidence in favour of evolution via minor mergers

(2012) R. J. McLure et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Young ages and other intriguing properties of massive compact galaxies in the local Universe

(2012) A. Ferré-Mateu et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

(2012) Michele Cappellari et al.   NATURE

THE MAJORITY OF COMPACT MASSIVE GALAXIES ATz∼ 2 ARE DISK DOMINATED

(2011) Arjen van der Wel et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

INSIGHTS ON THE FORMATION, EVOLUTION, AND ACTIVITY OF MASSIVE GALAXIES FROM ULTRACOMPACT AND DISKY GALAXIES ATz= 2–3

(2011) Tim Weinzirl et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

HYDRODYNAMICS OF HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXY COLLISIONS: FROM GAS-RICH DISKS TO DISPERSION-DOMINATED MERGERS AND COMPACT SPHEROIDS

(2011) Frédéric Bournaud et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE PAIR FRACTION OF MASSIVE GALAXIES AT 0 ⩽z⩽ 3

(2011) Allison W. S. Man et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE IN GROUPS: THE BIRTH OF THE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

(2011) R. Feldmann et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE COSMOLOGICAL SIZE AND VELOCITY DISPERSION EVOLUTION OF MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

(2011) Ludwig Oser et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

GALAXY STRUCTURE AND MODE OF STAR FORMATION IN THE SFR-MASS PLANE FROMz∼ 2.5 TOz∼ 0.1

(2011) Stijn Wuyts et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE MAJOR AND MINOR GALAXY MERGER RATES ATz< 1.5

(2011) Jennifer M. Lotz et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE DIMINISHING IMPORTANCE OF MAJOR GALAXY MERGERS AT HIGHER REDSHIFTS

(2011) Rik J. Williams et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

A REVISED PARALLEL-SEQUENCE MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES: STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF S0 AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

(2011) John Kormendy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

The HST/ACS Coma Cluster Survey - III. Structural parameters of galaxies using single Sérsic fits★

(2011) Carlos Hoyos et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The evolution of quiescent galaxies at high redshifts (z≥ 1.4)

(2011) H. Domínguez Sánchez et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Dynamical masses of early-type galaxies: a comparison to lensing results and implications for the stellar initial mass function and the distribution of dark matter

(2011) J. Thomas et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Families of dynamically hot stellar systems over 10 orders of magnitude in mass

(2011) I. Misgeld et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The ATLAS3D project - IV. The molecular gas content of early-type galaxies★

(2011) Lisa M. Young et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The ATLAS3D project - VI. Simulations of binary galaxy mergers and the link with fast rotators, slow rotators and kinematically distinct cores

(2011) Maxime Bois et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Two-dimensional kinematics of SLACS lenses - III. Mass structure and dynamics of early-type lens galaxies beyond z ≃ 0.1

(2011) Matteo Barnabè et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The role of dissipation in the scaling relations of cosmological merger remnants

(2011) M. D. Covington et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

(2011) Qi Guo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Dissecting the size evolution of elliptical galaxies since z∼ 1: puffing-up versus minor-merging scenarios

(2011) Ignacio Trujillo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The ATLAS3D project - IX. The merger origin of a fast- and a slow-rotating early-type galaxy revealed with deep optical imaging: first results

(2011) Pierre-Alain Duc et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The fundamental plane of EDisCS galaxies

(2010) R. P. Saglia et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

THE MINOR ROLE OF GAS-RICH MAJOR MERGERS IN THE RISE OF INTERMEDIATE-MASS EARLY TYPES ATz⩽ 1

(2010) Carlos López-Sanjuan et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE MERGER-DRIVEN EVOLUTION OF MASSIVE GALAXIES

(2010) Aday R. Robaina et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DISSIPATIONAL VERSUS DISSIPATIONLESS GALAXY FORMATION AND THE DARK MATTER CONTENT OF GALAXIES

(2010) C. N. Lackner et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON SIZES, KINEMATICS,M/LGRADIENTS, AND LIGHT PROFILES OF MASSIVE COMPACT GALAXIES ATz∼ 2

(2010) Stijn Wuyts et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE SLOAN LENS ACS SURVEY. X. STELLAR, DYNAMICAL, AND TOTAL MASS CORRELATIONS OF MASSIVE EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

(2010) M. W. Auger et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE RISE AND FALL OF PASSIVE DISK GALAXIES: MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION ALONG THE RED SEQUENCE REVEALED BY COSMOS

(2010) Kevin Bundy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE EVOLVING RELATIONS BETWEEN SIZE, MASS, SURFACE DENSITY, AND STAR FORMATION IN 3 × 104GALAXIES SINCEz= 2

(2010) Rik J. Williams et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE DEARTH OF COMPACT, MASSIVE, RED SEQUENCE GALAXIES IN THE LOCAL UNIVERSE

(2010) Edward N. Taylor et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE TWO PHASES OF GALAXY FORMATION

(2010) Ludwig Oser et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE GROWTH OF MASSIVE GALAXIES SINCEz= 2

(2010) Pieter G. van Dokkum et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SUPERDENSE MASSIVE GALAXIES IN THE ESO DISTANT CLUSTER SURVEY (EDisCS)

(2010) T. Valentinuzzi et al.   Astrophysical Journal Letters

The inner structure of very massive elliptical galaxies: implications for the inside-out formation mechanism of z∼ 2 galaxies

(2010) O. Tiret et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Abundance gradient slopes versus mass in spheroids: predictions by monolithic models

(2010) Antonio Pipino et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The evolutionary sequence of submillimetre galaxies: from diffuse discs to massive compact ellipticals?

(2010) E. Ricciardelli et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

A substantial population of low-mass stars in luminous elliptical galaxies

(2010) Pieter G. van Dokkum et al.   NATURE

THE ROLE OF DRY MERGERS FOR THE FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXIES

(2009) M. Ruszkowski et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

CAN DRY MERGING EXPLAIN THE SIZE EVOLUTION OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES?

(2009) C. Nipoti et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

GALAXY SIZE PROBLEM ATz= 3: SIMULATED GALAXIES ARE TOO SMALL

(2009) M. Ryan Joung et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

RED NUGGETS ATz∼ 1.5: COMPACT PASSIVE GALAXIES AND THE FORMATION OF THE KORMENDY RELATION

(2009) Ivana Damjanov et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DRY MERGERS AND THE FORMATION OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES: CONSTRAINTS FROM LENSING AND DYNAMICS

(2009) C. Nipoti et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MAJOR MERGING: THE WAY TO MAKE A MASSIVE, PASSIVE GALAXY

(2009) Arjen van der Wel et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ON THE SIZE AND COMOVING MASS DENSITY EVOLUTION OF EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

(2009) Arjen van der Wel et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DARK MATTER SCALING RELATIONS AND THE ASSEMBLY EPOCH OF COMA EARLY-TYPE GALAXIES

(2009) J. Thomas et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE RELATION BETWEEN COMPACT, QUIESCENT HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES AND MASSIVE NEARBY ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES: EVIDENCE FOR HIERARCHICAL, INSIDE-OUT GROWTH

(2009) Rachel Bezanson et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

DISSIPATION AND EXTRA LIGHT IN GALACTIC NUCLEI. IV. EVOLUTION IN THE SCALING RELATIONS OF SPHEROIDS

(2009) Philip F. Hopkins et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MINOR MERGERS AND THE SIZE EVOLUTION OF ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES

(2009) Thorsten Naab et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

SUPERDENSE MASSIVE GALAXIES IN THE NEARBY UNIVERSE

(2009) Ignacio Trujillo et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

MILD VELOCITY DISPERSION EVOLUTION OF SPHEROID-LIKE MASSIVE GALAXIES SINCEz∼ 2

(2009) A. Javier Cenarro et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

FORMATION OF MASSIVE GALAXIES AT HIGH REDSHIFT: COLD STREAMS, CLUMPY DISKS, AND COMPACT SPHEROIDS

(2009) Avishai Dekel et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

THE EVOLUTION OF CENTRAL GROUP GALAXIES IN HYDRODYNAMICAL SIMULATIONS

(2009) R. Feldmann et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

AN ULTRA-DEEP NEAR-INFRARED SPECTRUM OF A COMPACT QUIESCENT GALAXY ATz= 2.2

(2009) Mariska Kriek et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

VINE—A NUMERICAL CODE FOR SIMULATING ASTROPHYSICAL SYSTEMS USING PARTICLES. II. IMPLEMENTATION AND PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS

(2009) Andrew F. Nelson et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

VINE—A NUMERICAL CODE FOR SIMULATING ASTROPHYSICAL SYSTEMS USING PARTICLES. I. DESCRIPTION OF THE PHYSICS AND THE NUMERICAL METHODS

(2009) M. Wetzstein et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF ELLIPTICAL AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

(2009) John Kormendy et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES

Compact high-redshift galaxies are the cores of the most massive present-day spheroids

(2009) Philip F. Hopkins et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Curvature in the scaling relations of early-type galaxies

(2009) Joseph B. Hyde et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Structural properties of central galaxies in groups and clusters

(2009) Yicheng Guo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Galaxies in a simulated ΛCDM Universe - I. Cold mode and hot cores

(2009) Dušan Kereš et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

High-redshift elliptical galaxies: are they (all) really compact?

(2009) C. Mancini et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Discriminating between the physical processes that drive spheroid size evolution

(2009) Philip F. Hopkins et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

GMASS ultradeep spectroscopy of galaxies at z ~ 2

(2008) A. Cimatti et al.   ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

SAURON’s Challenge for the Major Merger Scenario of Elliptical Galaxy Formation

(2008) Andreas Burkert et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

ARE DISK GALAXIES THE PROGENITORS OF GIANT ELLIPTICALS?

(2008) Thorsten Naab et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Dissipation and the Fundamental Plane: Observational Tests

(2008) Philip F. Hopkins et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Hubble Space TelescopeImages of Red Mergers: How Dry Are They?

(2008) Katherine E. Whitaker et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The Detection of a Red Sequence of Massive Field Galaxies atz∼ 2.3 and Its Evolution toz∼ 0

(2008) Mariska Kriek et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Structure and Star Formation in Galaxies out toz= 3: Evidence for Surface Density Dependent Evolution and Upsizing

(2008) Marijn Franx et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Size Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies at 1.7

(2008) Fernando Buitrago et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Confirmation of the Remarkable Compactness of Massive Quiescent Galaxies atz~ 2.3: Early-Type Galaxies Did not Form in a Simple Monolithic Collapse

(2008) Pieter G. van Dokkum et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Recent Structural Evolution of Early‐Type Galaxies: Size Growth fromz= 1 toz= 0

(2008) Arjen van der Wel et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Ongoing assembly of massive galaxies by major merging in large groups and clusters from the SDSS

(2008) Daniel H. McIntosh et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

Galaxy growth in the concordance ΛCDM cosmology

(2008) Q. Guo et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The population of early-type galaxies at1 < z < 2- new clues on their formation and evolution

(2008) P. Saracco et al.   MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY