The Kormendy relation of massive elliptical galaxies at z~1.5. Evidence for size evolution ?

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2006-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0610241v2

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.374:614-626,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 15 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11171.x

We present the morphological analysis based on HST-NIC2 (0.075 arcsec/pixel) images in the F160W filter of a sample of 9 massive field (> 10^{11} M_\odot) galaxies spectroscopically classified as early-types at 1.2 within R_e of our galaxies and we compared them with those of early-types at lower redshifts. We find that the surface brightness of our galaxies should get fainter by 2.5 mag from z~1.5 to z~0 to match the surface brightness of the local ellipticals with comparable R_e, i.e. the local Kormendy relation. Luminosity evolution without morphological changes can only explain half of this effect, as the maximum dimming expected for an elliptical galaxy is ~1.6 mag in this redshift range. Thus, other parameters, possibly structural, may undergo evolution and play an important role in reconciling models and observations. Hypothesizing an evolution of the effective radius of galaxies we find that R_e should increase by a factor 1.5 from z~1.5 to z~0.

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