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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 2(782), p. 68, 2014

DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/782/2/68

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Submillimeter Galaxies as Progenitors of Compact Quiescent Galaxies

Journal article published in 2014 by S. Toft, Smolči, V. Smolčić, B. Magnelli, A. Karim, A. Zirm, M. Michalowski, P. Capak, K. Sheth, K. Schawinski, J.-K. Krogager ORCID, S. Wuyts, D. Sanders, A. W. S. Man, D. Lutz and other authors.
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Abstract

Three billion years after the big bang (at redshift z = 2), half of the most massive galaxies were already old, quiescent systems with little to no residual star formation and extremely compact with stellar mass densities at least an order of magnitude larger than in low-redshift ellipticals, their descendants. Little is known about how they formed, but their evolved, dense stellar populations suggest formation within intense, compact starbursts 1-2 Gyr earlier (at 3