Relic galaxy analogues in Illustris TNG50: the formation pathways of surviving red nuggets in a cosmological simulation

Rodrigo Flores-Freitas, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Cristina Furlanetto +4

Relic galaxies are massive compact quiescent galaxies that formed at high-redshift and remained almost unchanged since then. In this work, we search for analogues to relic galaxies…