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CEERS中星系形态目录:自宇宙黎明以来星系大小和颜色梯度的演化

A Morphology Catalog of Galaxies in CEERS: Evolution in the Size and Color Gradients of Galaxies Since Cosmic Dawn

Colby College(科尔比学院);The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);University of the Pacific(太平洋大学);Columbia University(哥伦比亚大学);Space Telescope Science Institute(太空望远镜科学研究所);Rochester Institute of Technology(罗切斯特理工学院);Universidad de La Serena(拉塞雷纳大学);Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)(安达卢西亚天体物理学研究所(西班牙国家科学研究委员会));ARAID Foundation. Centro de Estudios de Física del Cosmos de Aragón (CEFCA)(阿拉贡宇宙物理研究中心基金会);University of Kansas(堪萨斯大学)
Elizabeth J. McGrath, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro, Viraj Pandya, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Dale D. Kocevski, Ricardo O. Amorín, Bren E. Backhaus, Fernand… 展开作者

Elizabeth J. McGrath, Steven L. Finkelstein, Guillermo Barro, Viraj Pandya, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Dale D. Kocevski, Ricardo O. Amorín, Bren E. Backhaus, Fernando Buitrago, Antonello Calabrò, Yingjie Cheng, Luca Costantin, Isa G. Cox, Kelcey Davis, Giovanni Gandolfi, Yuchen Guo, Nimish P. Hathi, Michaela Hirschmann, Benne W. Holwerda, Marc Huertas-Company, Anton M. Koekemoer, Ray A. Lucas, Bahram Mobasher, Fabio Pacucci, Casey Papovich, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Jonathan R. Trump, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Pablo Arrabal Haro, Micaela B. Bagley, Mark Dickinson, Adriano Fontana, Andrea Grazian, Norman A. Grogin, Lisa J. Kewley, Allison Kirkpatrick, Jennifer M. Lotz, Laura Pentericci, Nor Pirzkal, Swara Ravindranath, Rachel S. Somerville, Stephen M. Wilkins, Guang Yang, Lise-Marie Seillé, Xin Wang

AI总结:

本研究通过分析CEERS数据,揭示了从宇宙大爆炸以来星系大小和颜色梯度的演化,发现晚期星系颜色梯度受质量影响显著,而早期星系颜色梯度则较为稳定。

摘要:

我们通过在六个宽带滤波器(F115W,F150W,F200W,F277W,F356W和F444W)中使用galfit对检测到F356W<28.5的53,885个星系进行拟合,获得了形态学参数的测量结果。我们为这些星系在每个滤波器中提供了Sérsic指数、有效半长轴、轴比、积分亮度和方位角的公共目录。测量参数的不确定性是从具有类似噪声和背景特性的模拟星系中估计的。我们比较了我们的测量结果与在CANDELS/EGS区域使用HST/WFC3测量的结果,并发现大小在0.09dex以内一致,Sérsic指数在0.13dex以内一致。我们进一步展示了大小-质量关系的演化,并发现到z~9的演化与在较低红移下得出的结果一致。最后,我们研究了1<z<5的星系颜色梯度,并发现对于晚期类型星系(n<2.5),存在对质量的强依赖性,但没有明显的红移演化,表明在更高质量的星系中,恒星群体和尘埃吸收在半径上变化显著,对形态学k-校正有显著影响。对于早期类型星系(n>2.5),颜色梯度几乎平坦,没有质量依赖性,表明恒星群体在整个区域内更为均匀。所呈现的结构测量结果对于大多数F356W<27.0mag的星系具有20%或更好的准确性,并将有助于进一步研究到z~10的星系形态。

英文摘要:

We present measurements of morphological parameters from fitting 53,885 galaxies detected to a magnitude limit of F356W$< 28.5$ in the CEERS NIRCam imaging with galfit in six broadband filters: F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, and F444W. We provide a public catalog of Sérsic index, effective semi-major axis, axis ratio, integrated magnitude, and position angle for these galaxies in each of the filters. Uncertainties in the measured parameters are estimated from simulated galaxies that have similar noise and background properties as the observed galaxies. We compare our measurements with those in the CANDELS/EGS field measured with HST/WFC3 and find that the sizes agree to within 0.09 dex and the Sérsic indices agree to within 0.13 dex. We further present the evolution in the size-mass relation, and find that the evolution to $z\sim9$ is consistent with previous results derived at lower redshift. Finally, we look at the color gradients of galaxies at $1<z<5$ and find that for late-type galaxies ($n<2.5$), there is a strong dependence on mass, but no apparent evolution with redshift, indicating that the stellar populations and dust attenuation in more massive galaxies vary substantially with radius and contribute to significant morphological $k-$corrections. For early type galaxies ($n>2.5$), the color gradients are nearly flat with no dependence on mass, indicating that the stellar populations are more uniform throughout. The structural measurements presented are accurate to $20\%$ or better for most galaxies with F356W $<27.0$ mag and will enable further studies of galaxy morphology to $z\sim10$.

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