Exploring the formation and evolution of massive ellipticals with Extremely Red Objects
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
Extremely Red Objects (EROs) provide the important possibility to shed light on the formation and evolution of the present-day massive ellipticals. On one hand, they allow to select z>1 old passively evolving spheroidals and to compare their abundance with the predictions of galaxy formation scenarios. On the other hand, they provide the possibility to find dust obscured starbursts, a fraction of which may trace the formation of proto-ellipticals at z>2. In this paper, the most recent results on EROs are reviewed and the main implications discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0012057,
title = {Exploring the formation and evolution of massive ellipticals with Extremely Red Objects},
author = {A. Cimatti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0012057},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, invited contribution, to appear in the proceedings of the Deep Fields Workshop, Garching, October 2000