The Structure and Star Formation History of Early-Type Galaxies in the UDF/GRAPES Survey

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2005-04-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0504264v2

Astrophys.J.636:115-133,2005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

21 pages, 13 figures, accepted by ApJ. Higher quality figures are available at http://www.stsci.edu/science/grapes/papers/pasq

Scientific paper

10.1086/497290

We present a two-pronged approach to the formation of early-type galaxies, using a sample of 18 galaxies at 0.5 < z < 1 from the HST/ACS Ultra Deep Field and GRAPES surveys: 1) We combine slitless low resolution spectroscopy from the GRAPES dataset with simple models of galaxy formation to explore their star formation histories. 2) We also perform an analysis of their surface brightness distribution with the unprecedented details provided by the ACS superb angular resolution and photometric depth. Our spectroscopic analysis reveals that their stellar populations are rather homogeneous in age and metallicity and formed at redshifts z ~ 2-5. Evolving them passively, they become practically indistinguishable from ellipticals at z = 0. Also, their isophotal shapes appear very similar to those observed for nearby ellipticals, in that the percentages of disky and boxy galaxies at z ~ 1 are close to the values measured at z = 0. Moreover,we find that the isophotal structure of z ~ 1 early-type galaxies obeys the correlations already observed among nearby ellipticals, i.e. disky ellipticals have generally higher characteristic ellipticities, and boxy ellipticals have larger half-light radii and are brighter in the restframe B band. In this respect then, no significant structural differences are seen for ellipticals between z = 0 and 1.

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