Major Merging History in CANDELS. I. Evolution of the Incidence of Massive Galaxy-Galaxy Pairs from z=3 to z~0

Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Daniel H. McIntosh, Ryan Brennan +37

The rate of major galaxy-galaxy merging is theoretically predicted to steadily increase with redshift during the peak epoch of massive galaxy development ($1\le z\le 3$). We us…