Angular Sizes of Faint Field Disk Galaxies: Intrinsic Luminosity Evolution
Astrophysics
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
In order to explain the small scale-lengths detected in the recent deep field observations performed from large ground-based telescopes and from the Hubble Space Telescope, we investigate the predictions at high redshifts for disk galaxies that formed by infall. Changes with redshift in the observed properties of field galaxies are directly related to the evolution of the disks and of the stellar populations. We see that changes in the rest frame luminosity of a galaxy induce smaller values of half-light radii than are predicted assuming no evolution. Comparisons are presented with two observed samples from Mutz et al. (1994) and Smail et al. (1995).
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9606049,
title = {Angular Sizes of Faint Field Disk Galaxies: Intrinsic Luminosity Evolution},
author = {Laura Cayon and Joseph Silk and Stephane Charlot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9606049},
year = {2009}
}
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plain tex file + 3 postscript figures. To be published in ApJL