Disc cloaking: Establishing a lower limit to the number density of local compact massive spheroids/bulges and the potential fate of some high-z red nuggets

Dexter S. -H. Hon, Alister W. Graham, Benjamin L. Davis +1

The near-absence of compact massive quiescent galaxies in the local Universe implies a size evolution since $z\sim 2.5$. It is often theorised that such `red nuggets' have evolved i…