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The mutual feedback between star formation and nuclear activity in large spheroidal galaxies may be a key ingredient to overcome several difficulties plaguing current semi-analytic models for galaxy formation. We discuss some observational implications of the model by Granato et al. for the co-evolution of galaxies and active nuclei at their centers and stress the potential of the forthcoming surveys of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect on arcminute scales, down to μK levels, to investigate the early galaxy-formation phases, difficult to access by other means.
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De Zotti, G., Granato, G.L., Silva, L. et al. Observational Tests of the Galaxy Formation Process. Astrophys Space Sci 294, 3–8 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-004-4011-9
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