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Diagnosing DASH: A Catalog of Structural Properties for the COSMOS-DASH Survey

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2022-02-02 v1

Abstract

We present the H160H_{160} morphological catalogs for the COSMOS-DASH survey, the largest area near-IR survey using HST-WFC3 to date. Utilizing the "Drift And SHift" observing technique for HST-WFC3 imaging, the COSMOS-DASH survey imaged approximately 0.5 deg2^2 of the UltraVISTA deep stripes (0.7 deg2^2 when combined with archival data). Global structural parameters are measured for 51,586 galaxies within COSMOS-DASH using GALFIT (excluding the CANDELS area) with detection using a deep multi-band HST image. We recover consistent results with those from the deeper 3D-HST morphological catalogs, finding that, in general, sizes and S\'ersic indices of typical galaxies are accurate to limiting magnitudes of H160<23H_{160}<23 and H160<22H_{160}<22 ABmag, respectively. In size-mass parameter space, galaxies in COSMOS-DASH demonstrate robust morphological measurements out to z2z\sim2 and down to log(M/M)9\log(M_\star/M_\odot)\sim9. With the advantage of the larger area of COSMOS-DASH, we measure a flattening of the quiescent size-mass relation below log(M/M)10.5\log(M_\star/M_\odot)\sim10.5 that persists out to z2z\sim2. We show that environment is not the primary driver of this flattening, at least out to z=1.2z=1.2, whereas internal physical processes may instead govern the structural evolution.

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@article{arxiv.2111.14848,
  title  = {Diagnosing DASH: A Catalog of Structural Properties for the COSMOS-DASH Survey},
  author = {Sam E. Cutler and Katherine E. Whitaker and Lamiya A. Mowla and Gabriel B. Brammer and Arjen van der Wel and Danilo Marchesini and Pieter van Dokkum and Ivelina Momcheva and Mimi Song and Mohammad Akhshik and Erica J. Nelson and Rachel Bezanson and Marijn Franx and Mariska Kriek and Joel Leja and John W. MacKenty and Adam Muzzin and Heath Shipley and Daniel Lange-Vagle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.14848},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ. For associated morphological catalog, see https://archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/cosmos-dash