Stellar Populations and Kinematics of Red Galaxies at z>2: Implications for the Formation of Massive Galaxies

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2004-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404471v1

Astrophys.J.611:703-724,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 21 pages, 8 color figures, 7 b/w figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/422308

We recently identified a substantial population of galaxies at z>2 with red rest-frame optical colors. These distant red galaxies (DRGs) are efficiently selected by the simple observed color criterion J-K>2.3. In this paper we present NIR spectroscopy with Keck/NIRSPEC of six DRGs at 2.4

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