Seminarium Zakładu Astrofizyki

Red nuggets, massive ultra-compact red galaxies, are already scarce at redshift z>2, but at lower redshift become even rarer. Recently, different works contributed to the census of relics at z < 0.5, gathering less than 100 candidates, leaving the intermediate redshift still unexplored. The pioneering sample of red nuggets at intermediate redshift discovered with the VIPERS survey (Lisiecki et al., submitted) provides the next step to understanding the evolution of massive galaxies.