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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
卷 866, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/aae524
关键词
galaxies: evolution; galaxies: formation; galaxies: structure; galaxies: star formation
Recent hydrodynamical simulations predict that stellar feedback in intermediate-mass galaxies (IMGs) can drive strong fluctuations in structure (e.g., half-light radius, R-e). This process operates on timescales of only a few hundred Myr and persists even at late cosmic times. One prediction of this quasi-periodic, galactic-scale breathing is an anti-correlation between star formation rate (SFR) and R-e as central gas overdensities lead to starbursts whose feedback drags stars to larger radii while star formation dwindles. We test this prediction with a sample of 284 isolated IMGs with stellar masses of 10(9.0) <= M/M-circle dot <= 10(9.5) at 0.3 < z < 0.4 in the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) I-814 Cosmological Evolution Survey (COSMOS) footprint. We find that IMGs with higher specific SFRs (SSFR > 10(-10) yr(-1)) are the most extended with median sizes of Re similar to 2.8-3.4 kpc and are mostly disk-dominated systems. In contrast, IMGs with lower SSFRs are a factor of similar to 2-3 more compact with median sizes of R-e similar to 0.9-1.3 kpc and have more significant bulge contributions to their light. These observed trends are opposite to the predictions for stellar feedback that operate via the breathing process described above. We discuss various paths to reconcile the observations and simulations, all of which likely require a different implementation of stellar feedback in IMGs that drastically changes their predicted formation history.
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