Astronomy and Astrophysics 472(1) 77-85 Sep 2007 [Refereed]
Context. Formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies are still matters of debate. Knowledge of their star formation histories (SFHs) is essential to understand the formation mechanism. Colour-magnitude (C-M) diagrams of elliptical galaxies shou...
O. Nakamura   A. Aragon-Salamanca   B. Milvang-Jensen   N. Arimoto   C. Ikuta   S. P. Bamford   
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 366(1) 144-162 Feb 2006 [Refereed]
We have carried out spectroscopic observations in four cluster fields using Subaru's FOCAS multislit spectrograph and obtained spectra for 103 bright disc field and cluster galaxies at 0.06 ≤ z ≤ 120. 77 of these show emission lines, and 33 provid...