Description
We study the evolution of spectral early-type galaxies in clusters, groups, and the field up to redshift 0.9 using the ESO Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS) dataset. We measure structural parameters (circularized half-luminosity radii Re, surface brightness Ie, and velocity dispersions sigma) for 154 cluster and 68 field galaxies. On average, we achieve precisions of 10% in Re, 0.1dex in logIe, and 10% in sigma. We sample ~20% of cluster and ~10% of field spectral early-type galaxies to an I band magnitude in a 1arcsec radius aperture as faint as I1=22. We study the evolution of the zero point of the fundamental plane (FP) and confirm results in the literature, but now also for the low cluster velocity dispersion regime.
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