Massive Compact Quiescent Galaxies in the $M_{\star }$ vs. ${\sigma }_{\mathrm{e}}$ Plane: Insights from stellar Population Properties

K. Slodkowski Clerici, A. Schnorr-Müller, M. Trevisan +1

We investigated the stellar population properties of a sample of 1858 massive compact galaxies (MCGs) extracted from the SDSS survey. Motivated by previous results showing that old…