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Black Hole Mass Determinations From Orbit Superposition Models are Reliable

Douglas Richstone, Karl Gebhardt, Monique Aller +13

We show that orbit-superposition dynamical models (Schwarzschild's method) provide reliable estimates of nuclear black hole masses and errors when constructed from adequate orbit l…

astro-ph2003

The TESIS project: revealing massive early-type galaxies at z>1

P. Saracco, M. Longhetti, P. Severgnini +8

We present the preliminary results of an on-going near-IR low resolution spectroscopic follow-up of a complete sample of 30 bright (K'<18.5) EROs selected over 360 arcmin^2 from th…

astro-ph2002

The Epochs of Early-Type Galaxy Formation in Clusters and in the Field

Daniel Thomas, Claudia Maraston, Ralf Bender

We compute new population synthesis models of Lick absorption line indices with variable alpha/Fe ratios and use them to derive average ages, metallicities, and alpha/Fe element en…

astro-ph2001

The FORS Deep Field

J. Heidt, I. Appenzeller, R. Bender +20

Dedicating a major fraction of its guaranteed time, the FORS consortium established a FORS Deep Field which contains a known QSO at z = 3.36. It was imaged in UBgRIz with FORS at t…

astro-ph2000

The evolution of the color gradients of early-type cluster galaxies

R. P. Saglia, C. Maraston, L. Greggio +2

We investigate the origin of color gradients in cluster early-type galaxies to probe whether pure age or pure metallicity gradients can explain the observed data in local and dista…

astro-ph2000

Spectra of High Redshift Galaxies using a Cluster as a Gravitational Telescope

D. Mehlert, S. Seitz, R. P. Saglia +7

Using the Focal Reducer Spectrograph (FORS) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) during the FORS commissioning time in December 1998 we took long slit spectra of the gravitational arc…