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The rise and fall of stellar across the peak of cosmic star formation history: effects of mergers versus diffuse stellar mass acquisition

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Building galaxy merger trees from a state-of-the-art cosmological hydrodynamical simulation, Horizon-AGN, we perform a statistical study of how mergers and diffuse stellar mass acquisition processes drive galaxy morphologic properties above z > 1. By diffuse mass acquisition here, we mean both accretion of stars by unresolved mergers (relative stellar mass growth smaller than 4.5 per cent) as well as in situ star formation when no resolved mergers are detected along the main progenitor branch...

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10.1093/mnras/stw2778

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society More from this journal
Volume:
465
Issue:
1
Pages:
1241-1258
Publication date:
2016-10-28
Acceptance date:
2016-10-28
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1365-2966
ISSN:
0035-8711
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English
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pubs:508404
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uuid:383b644e-5c32-479c-9e0b-a40c9eacba7b
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pubs:508404
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508404
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2017-04-28

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