Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-08-06
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
31 pages, 10 JPEG figures. To be published in AJ Vol. 124, October 2002
Scientific paper
10.1086/342446
We fit elliptical isophotes to the Hubble Deep Field-North WFPC-2 and NICMOS data to study the rest-frame UV_{218}-U_{300} color profiles and rest-frame B surface brightness profiles of 33 intermediate redshift galaxies (0.5 <= z <= 1.2) with I_{814} < 25 and 50 high redshift galaxies (2.0 <= z <= 3.5) with H_{160}< 27. From the weighted least-squares fit to the color profiles we find that, at intermediate redshifts, the galaxies possess negative color gradients indicating a reddening towards the center of the profile similar to local samples whereas, at high redshifts, the galaxies possess positive color gradients. This indicates that star formation is more centrally concentrated in the distant galaxy sample which differs from the prevalent mode of extended disk star formation that we observe in the local universe. Additionally, we find that it is critical to correct for PSF effects when evaluating the surface brightness profiles since at small scale lengths and faint magnitudes, an r^{1/4} profile can be smoothed out substantially to become consistent with an exponential profile. After correcting for PSF effects, we find that at higher look-back time, the fraction of galaxies possessing exponential profiles have slightly decreased while the fraction of galaxies possessing r^{1/4} profiles have slightly increased. Our results also suggest a statistically insignificant increase in the fraction of peculiar/irregular type galaxies. We compare our results with recent semi-analytical models which treat galaxy formation and evolution following the cold dark matter hierarchical framework.
Elston Richard J.
Moth Pimol
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