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Satellite Accretion Onto Massive Galaxies With Central Black Holes
Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Chung-Pei Ma
Minor mergers of galaxies are expected to be common in a hierarchical cosmology such as CDM and have the potential to significantly affect galactic structure. In this paper we d…
astro-ph2006
Red Mergers and the Assembly of Massive Elliptical Galaxies: the Fundamental Plane and its Projections
Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Chung-Pei Ma, Eliot Quataert
Several recent observations suggest that gas-poor (dissipationless) mergers of elliptical galaxies contribute significantly to the build-up of the massive end of the red sequence.…