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Buitrago, F.; Conselice, C. J.; Trujillo, I.
Bibliographical reference
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceedings of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Valencia, July 9 - 13, 2012, Eds.: J.C. Guirado, L.M. Lara, V. Quilis, and J. Gorgas., pp.164-171
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2013
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Description
Massive (M_{stellar}≥10^{11} h_{70}^{-2} {M}_{&sun;}) galaxies are
privileged probes to explore galaxy evolution, as their high
luminosities allow us to track them over a large span of cosmic time.
They suffer dramatic modifications in their sizes, star formation
histories and number densities from high to low redshift. This must be
also reflected in their structural parameters and thus we present here
how their Sérsic indices and visual morphologies change since z =
3. This has been confirmed by analysing the rotational support for 10 of
these objects at z = 1.4. Future large area and deep surveys as
UltraVISTA will unveil the relation of this galaxy population with their
lower mass companions, and hence constraining the ΛCDM paradigm.