Bibcode
Poggianti, Bianca M.; Calvi, R.; Bindoni, Daniele; D'Onofrio, Mauro; Moretti, Alessia; Valentinuzzi, Tiziano; Fasano, Giovanni; Fritz, Jacopo; De Lucia, Gabriella; Vulcani, Benedetta; Bettoni, Daniela; Gullieuszik, Marco; Omizzolo, Alessandro
Bibliographical reference
The Intriguing Life of Massive Galaxies, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 295, pp. 151-154
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2013
Citations
6
Refereed citations
5
Description
We present a study of galaxy sizes in the local Universe as a function
of galaxy environment, comparing clusters and the general field.
Galaxies with radii and masses comparable to high-z massive and compact
galaxies represent 4.4% of all galaxies more massive than 3 ×
1010M⊙ in the field. Such galaxies are 3 times
more frequent in clusters than in the field. Most of them are early-type
galaxies with intermediate to old stellar populations. There is a trend
of smaller radii for older luminosity-weighted ages at fixed galaxy
mass. We show the relation between size and luminosity-weighted age for
galaxies of different stellar masses and in different environments. We
compare with high-z data to quantify the evolution of galaxy sizes. We
find that, once the progenitor bias due to the relation between galaxy
size and stellar age is removed, the average amount of size evolution of
individual galaxies between high- and low-z is mild, of the order of a
factor 1.6.