Allison W. S. Man, Andrew Zirm, Sune Toft
In this work I investigate the redshift evolution of pair fraction of a
sample of 196 massive galaxies from z = 0 to 3, selected from the COSMOS field.
We find that on average a massive galaxy undergoes ~ 1.1 \pm 0.5 major merger
since z = 3. I will review the current limitations of using the pair fraction
as a probe for quantifying the impact of mergers on galaxy evolution. This work
is based on the paper Man et al. (2011).
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3764
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