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The insignificance of major mergers in driving star formation at z ≅ 2

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Kaviraj, S
Cohen, S. H.
Windhorst, Rogier A
Silk, Joe
O’Connell, R. W.
Dopita, Michael
Dekel, A
Hathi, Nimish P
Straughn, Amber
Rutkowski, M J

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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We study the significance of major-merger-driven star formation in the early Universe, by quantifying the contribution of this process to the total star formation budget in 80 massive (M* > 1010 M⊙) galaxies at z ≃ 2. Employing visually classified

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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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2037-12-31