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Probing the evolution of massive galaxies with the K20 survey

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

The motivations and the status of the K20 survey are presented. The first results on the evolution of massive galaxies and the comparison with the predictions of the currently competing scenarios of galaxy formation are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0201050,
  title  = {Probing the evolution of massive galaxies with the K20 survey},
  author = {A. Cimatti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0201050},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 2 figures, invited contribution to appear in the proceedings of the ESO/USM Workshop "The Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift", Venice (Italy), October 24-26, 2001