Dynamical masses of early-type galaxies at z~2

Abstract

The evolution of masses and sizes of passive (early-type) galaxies with redshift provides ideal constraints to galaxy formation models. These parameters can in principle be obtained for large galaxy samples from multi-band photometry alone. However the accuracy of photometric masses is limited by the non-universality of the IMF. Galaxy sizes can be biased at high redshift due to the inferior quality of the imaging data. Both problems can be avoided using galaxy dynamics, and in particular by measuring the galaxies stellar velocity dispersion. Here we provide an overview of the efforts in this direction.

8 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX. Invited talk to the IAU Symposium 295 "The Intriguing Life of Massive Galaxies". To appear in Proc. of the XXVIII IAU General Assembly, Beijing, China, August 2012, eds. D. Thomas, A. Pasquali & I. Ferreras. Cambridge University Press

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• The Atlas3D project - XX. Mass-size and mass-sigma distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function