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| Paper: |
Testing Hierarchical Galaxy Evolution Models with the Luminosity-Size Relation of Distant Field Galaxies |
| Volume: |
197, XVth IAP Meeting Dynamics of Galaxies: From the Early Universe to the Present |
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439 |
| Authors: |
Simard, L.; Somerville, R. S. |
| Abstract: |
The observed luminosity-size relation of galactic disks out to z = 1.1 is used to test simple disk evolution models. Three different theoretical models are directly compared to observations by ``observing'' mock galaxy parameter catalogs generated from those models with the same survey disk selection function as determined from the observations. None of the three models appear to provide a convincing fit to the observations. This type of quantitative comparison should be extended to other disk scaling relations to develop a more comprehensive test of disk galaxy evolution models. |
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