Inside-Out Infall Formation of Disk Galaxies: Do Predictions Differ from Models without Size Evolution?

Details Inside-Out Infall Formation of Disk Galaxies: Do Predictions Differ from Models without Size Evolution? Inside-Out Infall Formation of Disk Galaxies: Do Predictions Differ from Models without Size Evolution?

1997-09-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9709127v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, LaTeX (aaspp4.sty), accepted by ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/310969

We develop an idealized inside-out formation model for disk galaxies to include a realistic mix of galaxy types and luminosities that provides a fair match to the traditional observables. The predictions of our infall models are compared against identical models with no-size evolution by generating fully realistic simulations of the HDF, from which we recover the angular size distributions. We find that our infall models produce nearly identical angular size distributions to those of our no-size evolution models in the case of a Omega = 0 geometry but produce slightly smaller sizes in the case of a Omega = 1 geometry, a difference we associate with the fact that there is a different amount of cosmic time in our two models for evolving to relatively low redshifts (z \approx 1-2). Our infall models also predict a slightly smaller (11% - 29%) number of large (disk scale lengths > 4 h_{50} ^{-1} kpc) galaxies at z \approx 0.7 for the CFRS as well as different increases in the central surface brightness of the disks for early-type spirals, the infall model predicting an increase by 1.2 magnitudes out to z \approx 2 (Omega = 0), 1 (Omega = 1), while our no-size evolution models predict an increase of only 0.5 magnitude. This result suggests that infall models could be important for explaining the 1.2-1.6 magnitude increase in surface brightness reported by Schade et al. (1995, 1996a, 1996b).

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