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astro-ph.CO2013★ 20 cited
A Novel Approach to Constrain the Mass Ratio of Minor Mergers in Elliptical Galaxies: Application to NGC 4889, the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in Coma
Meng Gu, Luis C. Ho, Chien Y. Peng +1
Minor mergers are thought to be important for the build-up and structural evolution of massive elliptical galaxies. In this work, we report the discovery of a system of four shell…
astro-ph.CO2013★ 83 cited
Fossil Evidence for the Two-phase Formation of Elliptical Galaxies
Song Huang, Luis C. Ho, Chien Y. Peng +2
Massive early-type galaxies have undergone dramatic structural evolution over the last 10 Gyr. A companion paper shows that nearby elliptical galaxies with M*>1.3x10^{11} M_sun gen…