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University of Massachusetts Amherst

2012

Galaxies: structure

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The Assembly Of Galaxies Over Cosmic Time, Yicheng Guo Sep 2012

The Assembly Of Galaxies Over Cosmic Time, Yicheng Guo

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To Understand how galaxies were assembled across the cosmic time remains one of the most outstanding questions in astronomy. The core of this question is how today's Hubble Sequence, namely the differentiation of galaxy morphology and its correlation to galaxy physical properties, is formed. In this thesis, we investigate the origin of the Hubble Sequence through galaxies at z~2, an epoch when the cosmic star formation activity reaches its peak and the properties of galaxies undergo dramatic transitions. Galaxies at z~2 have two important features that are distinct from nearby galaxies: much higher frequency of clumpy morphology in star-forming systems, …


The Size-Luminosity Relation At Z=7 In Candels And Its Implication On Reionization, A. Grazian, M. Castellano, A. Fontana, L. Pentericci, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. Mclure, A. M. Koekemoer, M. E. Dickinson, S. M. Faber, H. C. Ferguson, A. Galametz, Mauro Giavalisco, N. A. Grogin, N. P. Hathi, D. D. Kocevski, K. Lai, J. A. Newman, E. Vanzella Jan 2012

The Size-Luminosity Relation At Z=7 In Candels And Its Implication On Reionization, A. Grazian, M. Castellano, A. Fontana, L. Pentericci, J. S. Dunlop, R. J. Mclure, A. M. Koekemoer, M. E. Dickinson, S. M. Faber, H. C. Ferguson, A. Galametz, Mauro Giavalisco, N. A. Grogin, N. P. Hathi, D. D. Kocevski, K. Lai, J. A. Newman, E. Vanzella

Mauro Giavalisco

The exploration of the relation between galaxy sizes and other physical parameters has given important clues to understand the galaxy formation processes. We use the CANDELS Deep+Wide surveys in the GOODS-South, UDS and EGS fields, complemented by data from the HUDF09 program, to address the relation between size and luminosity at z\sim7. We select 153 z-band drop-out galaxies in six different fields characterized by a wide combination of depth and areal coverage, ideally suited to sample without biases the observed size-magnitude plane. Detailed simulations allow us to derive the completeness as a function of sizes and magnitudes and to quantify …