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INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics II. First Data Release (DR1)
C. Spiniello, C. Tortora, G. D'Ago +12
The INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics is an on-going project targeting 52 ultra-compact massive galaxies at 0.1<z<0.5 with the X-Shooter@VLT spectrograph (XSH). These obje…
INSPIRE: INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics -- I. Survey presentation and pilot program
C. Spiniello, C. Tortora, G. D'Ago +12
Massive ETGs are thought to form through a two-phase process. At early times, an intense and fast starburst forms blue and disk-dominated galaxies. After quenching, the remaining s…
Nature versus nurture: relic nature and environment of the most massive passive galaxies at
C. Tortora, N. R. Napolitano, M. Radovich +13
Relic galaxies are thought to be the progenitors of high-redshift red nuggets that for some reason missed the channels of size growth and evolved passively and undisturbed since th…
Building the largest spectroscopic sample of ultra-compact massive galaxies with the Kilo Degree Survey
Diana Scognamiglio, Crescenzo Tortora, Marilena Spavone +14
Ultra-compact massive galaxies UCMGs, i.e. galaxies with stellar masses and effective radii kpc, are very rare systems, in partic…
Optical analysis of a CMB cosmic string candidate
O. S. Sazhina, D. Scognamiglio, M. V. Sazhin +1
The complexity of the cosmological scenario regarding cosmic strings (CSs) stands still in the way of a complete understanding. We describe here a promising strategy for the possib…
The first sample of spectroscopically confirmed ultra-compact massive galaxies in the Kilo Degree Survey
C. Tortora, N. R. Napolitano, M. Spavone +25
We present results from an ongoing investigation using the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS) on the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) to provide a census of ultra-compact massive galaxies (UCMGs)…