Publication: The relationship between galaxy and dark matter halo size from z ∼ 3 to the present
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2018-01
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We explore empirical constraints on the statistical relationship between the radial size of galaxies and the radius of their host dark matter haloes from z similar to 0.1-3 using the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) and Cosmic Assembly Near Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey (CANDELS) surveys. We map dark matter halo mass to galaxy stellar mass using relationships from abundance matching, applied to the Bolshoi-Planck dissipationless N-body simulation. We define SRHR equivalent to r(e)/R-h as the ratio of galaxy radius to halo virial radius, and SRHR lambda equivalent to r(e)/(lambda R-h) as the ratio of galaxy radius to halo spin parameter times halo radius. At z similar to 0.1, we find an average value of SRHR similar or equal to 0.018 and SRHR. similar or equal to 0.5 with very little dependence on stellar mass. Stellar radius-halo radius (SRHR) and SRHR lambda have a weak dependence on cosmic time since z similar to 3. SRHR shows a mild decrease over cosmic time for low-mass galaxies, but increases slightly or does not evolve formoremassive galaxies. We find hints that at high redshift (z similar to 2-3), SRHR. is lower for more massive galaxies, while it shows no significant dependence on stellar mass at z less than or similar to 0.5. We find that for both the GAMA and CANDELS samples, at all redshifts from z similar to 0.1-3, the observed conditional size distribution in stellar mass bins is remarkably similar to the conditional distribution of lambda R-h. We discuss the physical interpretation and implications of these results.
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© 2017 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Artículo firmado por 13 autores. We thank Seong-Kook Lee for helpful comments on the manuscript, and we thank Aldo Rodríguez Puebla and Andrey Kravtsov for useful discussions. We thank Kuang-Han Huang for providing his data in electronic format and for helpful discussions. We thank the anonymous referee for comments and suggestions that improved the paper. We acknowledge the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Santa Barbara, where part of this work was performed. This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF PHY-1125915. RSS thanks the Downsbrough family for their generous support, and acknowledges support from the Simons Foundation through a Simons Investigator grant. PB was supported by program number HST-HF2-51353.001-A, provided by NASA through a Hubble Fellowship grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. PGP-G acknowledges support from Spanish MINECO Grants AYA2015-63650-P and AYA2015-70815-ERC. We acknowledge the contributions of hundreds of individuals to the planning and support of the CANDELS observations, and to the development and installation of new instruments on HST, without which this work would not have been possible. Support for HST Programs GO-12060 and GO-12099 was provided by NASA through grants from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS5-26555.