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de la Rosa, I. G.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights on Spanish Astrophysics IX, Proceedings of the XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society held on July 18-22, 2016, in Bilbao, Spain, ISBN 978-84-606-8760-3. S. Arribas, A. Alonso-Herrero, F. Figueras, C. Hernández-Monteagudo, A. Sánchez-Lavega, S. Pérez-Hoyos (eds.), 2017 , p. 222-225
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2017
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Description
A significant fraction of the present day massive galaxies have compact
cores embedded inside their disks or halos. Strikingly, those compact
cores are similar to the massive high-redshift quiescent compact
galaxies, nicknamed red-nuggets. We present observational evidence
supporting an inside-out formation scenario, where present-day massive
galaxies can begin as dense spheroidal cores (red-nuggets), around which
either a spheroidal halo or a disk are accreted later. This contribution
is based on the paper by de la Rosa et al. (2016).