The Mass-Radius Relation for Star-Forming Galaxies at z ~ 1.5-3.0

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2011-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3954v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. 3 figures. Revision 1: Fixed title

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We present early results from a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) WFC3/IR imaging survey of star-forming galaxies in the redshift range 1.5 < z < 3.0. When complete, this survey will consist of 42 orbits of F160W imaging distributed amongst 10 survey fields on the line of sight to bright background QSOs, covering 65 arcmin^2 to a depth of 27.9 AB with a PSF FWHM of 0.18". In this contribution, we use a subset of these fields to explore the evolution of the galactic stellar mass-radius relation for a magnitude-limited sample of 102 spectroscopically-confirmed star forming galaxies ( ~ 30 Msun/yr) with stellar mass M* ~ 10^{10} Msun. Although the light profile of these galaxies often has an irregular, multi-component morphology, it is typically possible to describe the brightest component with a Sersic profile of index n ~ 1. The circularized half-light radius r_e of the brightest component is on average = 1.66 \pm 0.79 kpc (i.e., ~ 50-70% the size of local late-type galaxies with similar stellar mass), consistent with recent theoretical models that incorporate strong feedback from star forming regions. The mean half-light radius increases with stellar mass and, at fixed stellar mass, evolves with cosmic time as ~ (1+z)^{-1.42}, suggesting that high redshift star forming galaxies may evolve onto the local stellar mass-radius relation by redshift z ~ 1.

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