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The morphology of extremely red objects
G. Moriondo, A. Cimatti, E. Daddi
We present a quantitative study of the morphology of 41 Extremely Red Objects (EROs). The analysis is based on deep otical and near-infrared images from the Hubble Space Telescope…
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EROs and the formation epoch of field ellipticals
E. Daddi, A. Cimatti, A. Renzini
A comparison is presented between the observed surface density of extremely red objects (EROs) and the densities of red high-z elliptical galaxies predicted by Pure Luminosity Evol…
astro-ph2000
Is the deficit of z > 1 field ellipticals real ?
E. Daddi
The results of a 700 arcmin^2 survey for EROs are presented. The sky distribution of EROs is very inhomogeneous and their two point correlation function shows a very high amplitude…