Journal article
Dark-ages reionization and galaxy formation simulation – XVII. Sizes, angular momenta, and morphologies of high-redshift galaxies
MA Marshall, SJ Mutch, Y Qin, GB Poole, JSB Wyithe
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2019
Abstract
We study the sizes, angular momenta, and morphologies of high-redshift galaxies, using an update of the MERAXES semi-analytic galaxy evolution model. Our model successfully reproduces a range of observations from redshifts z = 0–10. We find that the effective radius of a galaxy disc scales with ultraviolet (UV) luminosity as Re ∝ L0UV0.33 at z = 5–10, and with stellar mass as Re ∝ M∗0.24 at z = 5 but with a slope that increases at higher redshifts. Our model predicts that the median galaxy size scales with redshift as Re ∝ (1 + z)−m, where m = 1.98 ± 0.07 for galaxies with (0.3–1)L∗z=3 and m = 2.15 ± 0.05 for galaxies with (0.12–0.3)L∗z=3. We find that the ratio between stellar and halo spec..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the anonymous referee for their detailed comments and suggestions. We are also grateful to Michael Fall and Lorenzo Posti for their useful comments. This research was supported by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D), through project number CE170100013. This work was performed on the OzSTAR national facility at Swinburne University of Technology. OzSTAR is funded by Swinburne University of Technology and the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). MAM acknowledges the support of an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship.