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Diagnosing DASH: A Catalog of Structural Properties for the COSMOS-DASH Survey

  • Sam E. Cutler
  • , Katherine E. Whitaker
  • , Lamiya A. Mowla
  • , Gabriel B. Brammer
  • , Arjen Van Der Wel
  • , Danilo Marchesini
  • , Pieter G. Van Dokkum
  • , Ivelina G. Momcheva
  • , Mimi Song
  • , Mohammad Akhshik
  • , Erica J. Nelson
  • , Rachel Bezanson
  • , Marijn Franx
  • , Mariska Kriek
  • , Daniel Lange-Vagle
  • , Joel Leja
  • , John W. Mackenty
  • , Adam Muzzin
  • , Heath Shipley

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Abstract

We present the H 160 morphological catalogs for the COSMOS-DASH survey, the largest area near-IR survey using HST-WFC3 to date. Utilizing the "Drift And SHift"observing technique for HST-WFC3 imaging, the COSMOS-DASH survey imaged approximately 0.5 deg2 of the UltraVISTA deep stripes (0.7 deg2, when combined with archival data). Global structural parameters are measured for 51,586 galaxies within COSMOS-DASH using GALFIT (excluding the CANDELS area) with detection using a deep multi-band HST image. We recover consistent results with those from the deeper 3D-HST morphological catalogs, finding that, in general, sizes and Sérsic indices of typical galaxies are accurate to limiting magnitudes of H 160 < 23 and H 160 < 22 ABmag, respectively. In size-mass parameter space, galaxies in COSMOS-DASH demonstrate robust morphological measurements out to z ∼2 and down to log(M∗/Mo˙)∼9 . With the advantage of the larger area of COSMOS-DASH, we measure a flattening of the quiescent size-mass relation below log(M∗/Mo˙)∼10.5 that persists out to z ∼2. We show that environment is not the primary driver of this flattening, at least out to z = 1.2, whereas internal physical processes may instead govern the structural evolution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number34
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume925
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2022

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Space and Planetary Science

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