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 $M_{\ast }>8\times 10^{10}{M}_{\odot }$ and effective radii $R_e<1.5$ kpc, are very rare systems, in partic…