THE MORPHOLOGY OF PASSIVELY EVOLVING GALAXIES AT z ∼ 2 FROM HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE/WFC3 DEEP IMAGING IN THE HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD

被引：75

作者：

Cassata, P. ^{[1
]}

Giavalisco, M. ^{[1
]}

Guo, Yicheng ^{[1
]}

Ferguson, H. ^{[2
]}

Koekemoer, A. M. ^{[2
]}

Renzini, A. ^{[3
]}

Fontana, A. ^{[4
]}

Salimbeni, S. ^{[1
]}

Dickinson, M. ^{[5
]}

Casertano, S. ^{[2
]}

Conselice, C. J. ^{[6
]}

Grogin, N. ^{[2
]}

Lotz, J. M. ^{[5
]}

Papovich, C. ^{[7
]}

Lucas, R. A. ^{[2
]}

Straughn, A. ^{[8
]}

Gardner, Jonathan P. ^{[8
]}

Moustakas, L. ^{[9
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Astron, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

[2] Space Telescope Sci Inst, Baltimore, MD 21218 USA

[3] Osservatorio Astron Padova INAF OAPD, I-35122 Padua, Italy

[4] INAF Osservatorio Aston Roma, I-00040 Rome, Italy

[5] NOAO Tucson, Tucson, AZ 85719 USA

[6] Univ Nottingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England

[7] Texas A&M Univ, Dept Phys, George P & Cynthia Woods Mitchell Inst Fundamenta, College Stn, TX 77843 USA

[8] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Observat Cosmol Lab, Astrophys Sci Div, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[9] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS | 2010年 / 714卷 / 01期

关键词：

cosmology: observations; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: fundamental parameters; MASSIVE GALAXIES; STAR-FORMATION; POPULATION SYNTHESIS; QUIESCENT GALAXIES; SIZE EVOLUTION; CHANDRA; Z-SIMILAR-TO-2; REDSHIFT; FORM; RED;

D O I：

10.1088/2041-8205/714/1/L79

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

We present near-IR images, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope and the WFC3/IR camera, of six passive and massive galaxies at redshift 1.3 < z < 2.4 (specific star formation rate < 10(-2) Gyr(-1); stellar mass M similar to 10(11) M-circle dot), selected from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey. These images, which have a spatial resolution of similar to 1.5 kpc, provide the deepest view of the optical rest-frame morphology of such systems to date. We find that the light profile of these galaxies is regular and well described by a Sersic model with index typical of today's spheroids. Their size, however, is generally much smaller than today's early types of similar stellar masses, with four out of six galaxies having r(e) similar to 1 kpc or less, in quantitative agreement with previous similar measures made at rest-frame UV wavelengths. The images reach limiting surface brightness mu similar to 26.5 mag arcsec(-2) in the F160W bandpass; yet, there is no evidence of a faint halo in the galaxies of our sample, even in their stacked image. We also find that these galaxies have very weak "morphological k-correction" between the rest-frame UV (from the Advanced Camera for Surveys z band) and the rest-frame optical (WFC3 H band): the Sersic index, physical size, and overall morphology are independent or only mildly dependent on the wavelength, within the errors.

引用

页码：L79 / L83

页数：5

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