I finished the Masjedi, Hogg, and Blanton paper on the accretion rate for luminous red galaxies and submitted it to the Astrophysical Journal. It has a nice punchline: The accretion rate, even when integrating over a factor of 50 in merger mass ratios, is less than a few percent per Gyr, substantially lower than that predicted in CDM simulations, and much lower than many morphological measures of the merger or accretion rate. It will appear tomorrow as arXiv:0708.3240.
"Panoply." Good word.
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