Present-day massive galaxies are composed mostly of early-type objects. It is unknown
whether this was also the case at higher redshifts. In a hierarchical assembling scenario the …

We present results from modeling the optical spectra of a large sample of quiescent galaxies
between 0.1< z< 0.7 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the AGN and Galaxy …

Aims. The role of galaxy mergers in massive galaxy evolution, and in particular to mass
assembly and size growth, remains an open question. In this paper we measure the merger …

For early-type galaxies, the correlations between stellar mass and size, velocity dispersion,
surface brightness, colour, axial ratio and colour gradient all indicate that two mass scales …

Mergers are thought to be a fundamental channel for galaxy growth, perturbing the gas
dynamics and the magnetic fields (B-fields) in the interstellar medium (ISM). However, the …

Context. Lenticular (S0) galaxies are known to derive from spiral galaxies. The fact that S0s
nearly obey the Tully-Fisher relation (TFR) at z~ 0 (as spirals have done in the last~ 9 Gyr) is …

The CALIFA team has recently found that the stellar angular momentum and concentration
of late-type spiral galaxies are incompatible with those of lenticular galaxies (S0s) …

Context. The contribution of the merging process to the early phase of galaxy assembly at z>
1 and, in particular, to the build-up of the red sequence, still needs to be accurately …

Context. Observations have shown that inner discs and rings (IDs and IRs) are not
preferably found in barred galaxies, which indicates that their formation may differ from that …

Context. Lenticular galaxies (S0s) are more likely to host antitruncated (Type III) stellar discs
than galaxies of later Hubble types. Major mergers are popularly considered too violent to …