Relations between the sizes of galaxies and their dark matter halos at redshifts 0< z< 3

KH Huang, SM Fall, HC Ferguson… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
KH Huang, SM Fall, HC Ferguson, A Van Der Wel, N Grogin, A Koekemoer, SK Lee…
The Astrophysical Journal, 2017iopscience.iop.org
We derive relations between the effective radii R eff of galaxies and the virial radii R 200c of
their dark matter halos over the redshift range 0< z< 3. For galaxies, we use the measured
sizes from deep images taken with Hubble Space Telescope for the Cosmic Assembly Near-
infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey; for halos, we use the inferred sizes from
abundance matching to cosmological dark matter simulations via a stellar mass–halo mass
(SMHM) relation. For this purpose, we derive a new SMHM relation based on the same …
Abstract
We derive relations between the effective radii R eff of galaxies and the virial radii R 200c of their dark matter halos over the redshift range 0< z< 3. For galaxies, we use the measured sizes from deep images taken with Hubble Space Telescope for the Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey; for halos, we use the inferred sizes from abundance matching to cosmological dark matter simulations via a stellar mass–halo mass (SMHM) relation. For this purpose, we derive a new SMHM relation based on the same selection criteria and other assumptions as for our sample of galaxies with size measurements. As a check on the robustness of our results, we also derive R eff–R 200c relations for three independent SMHM relations from the literature. We find that galaxy R eff is proportional on average to halo R 200c, confirming and extending to high redshifts the z= 0 results of Kravtsov. Late-type galaxies (with low Sérsic index and high specific star formation rate (sSFR)) follow a linear R eff–R 200c relation, with effective radii at 0.5< z< 3 close to those predicted by simple models of disk formation; at z< 0.5, the sizes of late-type galaxies appear to be slightly below this prediction. Early-type galaxies (with high Sérsic index and low sSFR) follow a roughly parallel R eff–R 200c relation,∼ 0.2–0.3 dex below the one for late-type galaxies. Our observational results, reinforced by recent hydrodynamical simulations, indicate that galaxies grow quasi-homologously with their dark matter halos.
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