The Puzzling Origin of Massive Compact Galaxies in MaNGA

A. Schnorr-Müller, M. Trevisan, R. Riffel +7

We characterized the kinematics, morphology, and stellar population (SP) properties of a sample of massive compact quiescent galaxies (MCGs, $10\lesssim \log M_{\star }$/$M_\odot \le…