Discovery of a Bimodal Environmental Distribution of Compact Ellipticals in the Local Universe

Guangwen Chen, Hong-Xin Zhang, Xu Kong +5

Low-mass compact stellar systems (CSSs; $M_{\star }$ $<$ 10${}^{10}$ M${}_{\odot }$) are thought to be a mixed bag of objects with various formation mechanisms. Previous surveys of CSSs…