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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 765, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/765/1/68
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galaxies: evolution; galaxies: high-redshift; galaxies: luminosity function, mass function; galaxies: structure; methods: data analysis
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- NASA through Space Telescope Science Institute [HST 60-12060]
- NASA [NAS5-26555]
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We study the bivariate size-luminosity distribution of Lyman break galaxies (LBGs) selected at redshifts around 4 and 5 in GOODS and the HUDF fields. We model the size-luminosity distribution as a combination of log-normal distribution (in size) and Schechter function (in luminosity), therefore it enables a more detailed study of the selection effects. We perform extensive simulations to quantify the dropout-selection completenesses and measurement biases and uncertainties in two-dimensional size and magnitude bins, and transform the theoretical size-luminosity distribution to the expected distribution for the observed data. Using maximum-likelihood estimator, we find that the Schechter function parameters for B-435-dropouts and are consistent with the values in the literature, but the size distributions are wider than expected from the angular momentum distribution of the underlying dark matter halos. The slope of the size-luminosity (RL) relation is similar to those found for local disk galaxies, but considerably shallower than local early-type galaxies.
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