Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-29
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 357 (2005) 903-917
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, 17 figures, accepted for pubblication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08657.x
We present a detailed analysis of the evolution of the rest-frame B-band morphology of K-selected galaxies with 0 < z < 2.5. This work is based on the K20 spectroscopic sample (Ks<20) located within the Chandra Deep Field South area, coupled with the public deep GOODS HST+ACSmulti-band optical imaging available in that field. Thanks to the spectroscopic completeness of this catalog reaching 94%, we can compare the morphological and spectroscopic properties of galaxies with unprecedented detail. Our morphological analysis includes visual inspection and automatic procedures using both parametric (e.g. the Sersic indices treated by the GALFIT and GASPHOT packages) and non-parametric (the Concentration, Asymmetry and clumpineSs, CAS) methods. Our analysis classifies the K20 galaxies as: 60/300 (20%, class 1) normal ellipticals/S0; 14/300 (4%, class 2) perturbed or peculiar ellipticals; 80/300 (27%, class 3) normal spirals; 48/300 (16%, class 4) perturbed or actively star-forming spirals; 98/300 (33%, class 5) irregulars. The evolution of the merging fraction is constrained up to z~2, by carefully accounting effects of morphological k-correction: both asymmetry criterion and pair statistic show an increasing merging fraction as a function of the redshift. We finally analyse the redshift-dependence of the effective radii for early- and late-type galaxies and find some mild evidence for a decrease with z of the early-type galaxy sizes, while disks and irregulars remain constant. Altogether, this analysis of the K20 sample indicates the large predominance of spirals and irregulars at 0.5
Cassata Paolo
Cimatti Andrea
Daddi Emanuele
Fasano Giancarmine
Franceschini Alberto
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