Galaxy Size Evolution at High Redshift and Surface Brightness Selection Effects: Constraints from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

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2004-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0406562v2

Astrophys.J. 611 (2004) L1-L4

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, replaced with accepted version

Scientific paper

10.1086/423786

We use the exceptional depth of the Ultra Deep Field (UDF) and UDF-Parallel ACS fields to study the sizes of high redshift (z~2-6) galaxies and address long-standing questions about possible biases in the cosmic star formation rate due to surface brightness dimming. Contrasting B, V, and i-dropout samples culled from the deeper data with those obtained from the shallower GOODS fields, we demonstrate that the shallower data are essentially complete at bright magnitudes to z<5.5 and that the principal effect of depth is to add objects at the magnitude limit. This indicates that high redshift galaxies are compact in size (~0.1-0.3") and that large (>0.4", >3 kpc) low surface brightness galaxies are rare. A simple comparison of the half-light radii of the HDF-N + HDF-S U-dropouts with B, V, and i-dropouts from the UDF shows that the sizes follow a (1+z)^{-1.05+/-0.21} scaling towards high redshift. A more rigorous measurement compares different scalings of our U-dropout sample with the mean profiles for a set of intermediate magnitude (26.0

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