TY - GEN
T1 - Eight billion years of disk galaxy evolution no galaxy is an island
AU - GEMS, MIPS Instrument, and COMBO-17 teams
AU - Bell, Eric F.
AU - Barden, Marco
AU - Zheng, Xianzhong
AU - Papovich, Casey
AU - Le Floc’H, Emeric
AU - Rieke, George
AU - Wolf, Christian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2007, Springer Netherlands. All rights reserved.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - We present a brief discussion of the evolution of disk galaxy stellar masses, sizes, rotation velocities, and star formation rates over the last eight billion years. Recent observations have failed to detect significant evolution in the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation, stellar mass–size relation, and the stellar mass function of disk galaxies. Yet, most z < 1 star formation is in disks, and this star formation would be expected to drive a rapid growth of the total stellar mass (and therefore mass function) of disks in the last eight billion years. Such a build-up is not seen; instead, a rapid build-up in the total stellar mass in non-star-forming spheroid-dominated galaxies is observed. Large numbers of disk-dominated galaxies are systematically shutting off their star formation and building up a spheroid (or losing a disk) in the epoch 0 < z < 1.
AB - We present a brief discussion of the evolution of disk galaxy stellar masses, sizes, rotation velocities, and star formation rates over the last eight billion years. Recent observations have failed to detect significant evolution in the stellar mass Tully-Fisher relation, stellar mass–size relation, and the stellar mass function of disk galaxies. Yet, most z < 1 star formation is in disks, and this star formation would be expected to drive a rapid growth of the total stellar mass (and therefore mass function) of disks in the last eight billion years. Such a build-up is not seen; instead, a rapid build-up in the total stellar mass in non-star-forming spheroid-dominated galaxies is observed. Large numbers of disk-dominated galaxies are systematically shutting off their star formation and building up a spheroid (or losing a disk) in the epoch 0 < z < 1.
KW - Galaxies: Evolution
KW - Galaxies: Fundamental parameters
KW - Infrared: Galaxies
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4020-5573-7_82
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4020-5573-7_82
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85033702807
SN - 9780387727677
SN - 9780387876207
SN - 9781402055720
SN - 9781402055720
SN - 9781402069321
SN - 9781402088674
SN - 9781402091896
SN - 9781441981608
SN - 9781441983688
SN - 9783540758259
SN - 9783642033230
SN - 9783642103216
SN - 9783642103513
SN - 9783642113406
SN - 9783642172502
SN - 9789048133994
SN - 9789048134984
T3 - Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
SP - 475
EP - 480
BT - Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings
A2 - De Jong, R.S.
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
T2 - International Conference on Island Universe: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies, 2005
Y2 - 3 July 2005 through 5 July 2005
ER -