Abstract
Cluster ellipticals are often thought to be among the oldest galaxies in the universe, with the bulk of their stellar mass formed at early cosmic epochs. I review recent observations of color evolution in early—type cluster galaxies at high redshift, which show remarkably little evolution in the color—magnitude relation out to z,≈ 1. Spectra of elliptical galaxies from 1.15 < z < 1.41 demonstrate the presence of a dominant old stellar population even at these large lookback times, although there is some evidence for a tail of later star formation. The Kormendy relation, a photometric/morphological scaling law for elliptical galaxies, is used to extend fundamental plane investigations to z = 1.2 and to test for luminosity evolution. While the evidence, overall, is consistent with simple and mild passive evolution, I review some caveats and briefly consider the data in the light of hierarchical galaxy formation models.
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Dickinson, M. (1997). Properties of High Redshift Cluster Ellipticals. In: da Costa, L.N., Renzini, A. (eds) Galaxy Scaling Relations: Origins, Evolution and Applications. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69654-4_27
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