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

C. Nipoti, T. Treu, A. Leauthaud +3

Early-type galaxies (ETGs) are observed to be more compact at z>2 than in the local Universe. Remarkably, much of this size evolution appears to take place in a short (1.8 Gyr) tim…