TESIS - The TNG EROs Spectroscopic Identification Survey

Abstract

A near-IR low-resolution spectroscopic follow-up of a complete sample of K<18.5 EROs has started at the 3.5 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG, La Palma, Canary Islands) by using a prism disperser AMICI. The sample has been selected from the Munich Near-IR Cluster Survey (MUNICS). The project aims at revealing massive galaxies at z>1.2 and at estimating their spatial density to put constraints on the galaxy formation and evolution models. In this proceeding, the preliminary analysis of the first spectra obtained is presented.

For the proceedings of the meeting "Galaxy Evolution: Theory and Observations", (Cozumel, April 2002), to be edited by V. Avila-Reese, C. Firmani, C. Frenk, & C. Allen, RevMexAA SC (2002)