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自z = 1以来,最大质量星系的大小几乎没有变化

Little change in the sizes of the most massive galaxies since z = 1

J. P. Stott, C. A. Collins, C. Burke, V. Hamilton-Morris, G. P. Smith

摘要:

最近的报告表明,椭圆星系的大小在过去的~8 Gyr急剧增加。这一结果指出了对主导星系晚期演化过程的重大反思。在本文中,我们提出的第一个估计的最亮的星系团(BCGs)的尺度大小的红移范围内0.8 < z < 1.3的分析深哈勃空间望远镜的图像,比较匹配的本地样本从本地集群子结构调查在z ~ 0.2。对于5个高红移BCGs的小样本,我们使用de Vaucuoleurs轮廓拟合测量范围从14 - 53 kpc的半光半径,与低红移比较样本的值43.2 \pm 1.0 kpc相比,平均值由32.1 \pm 2.5 kpc的堆叠确定。这意味着在z = 1处的BCG的尺度尺寸比在z = 0.25处小~ 30%。对比Sersic或Petrosian半径的分析也表明两个样品之间很少或没有进化。只有适度的演变,最多到z = 1的检测反对BCGs经历了大规模星系报告的大小大幅增加,因为z = 2,事实上BCGs的尺度大小的演变似乎更接近于报告的射电星系在类似的时代。我们的结论是,这种缺乏的大小演变,特别是当再加上最近的结果,缺乏BCG恒星质量的演变,表明主要合并是不是一个重要的过程,在这些系统的后期演化。在z = 1的BCGs的同质性和成熟度继续挑战星系演化模型。

英文摘要:

Recent reports suggest that elliptical galaxies have increased their size dramatically over the last ~8 Gyr. This result points to a major re-think of the processes dominating the latetime evolution of galaxies. In this paper we present the first estimates for the scale sizes of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) in the redshift range 0.8 < z < 1.3 from an analysis of deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging, comparing to a well matched local sample taken from the Local Cluster Substructure Survey at z ~ 0.2. For a small sample of 5 high redshift BCGs we measure half-light radii ranging from 14 - 53 kpc using de Vaucuoleurs profile fits, with an average determined from stacking of 32.1 \pm 2.5 kpc compared to a value 43.2 \pm 1.0 kpc for the low redshift comparison sample. This implies that the scale sizes of BCGs at z = 1 are ~ 30% smaller than at z = 0.25. Analyses comparing either Sersic or Petrosian radii also indicate little or no evolution between the two samples. The detection of only modest evolution at most out to z = 1 argues against BCGs having undergone the large increase in size reported for massive galaxies since z = 2 and in fact the scale-size evolution of BCGs appears closer to that reported for radio galaxies over a similar epoch. We conclude that this lack of size evolution, particularly when coupled with recent results on the lack of BCG stellar mass evolution, demonstrates that major merging is not an important process in the late time evolution of these systems. The homogeneity and maturity of BCGs at z = 1 continues to challenge galaxy evolution models.

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