151. The Size Evolution of Star-forming and Quenched Galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation
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Dylan Nelson, Lars Hernquist, Paul Torrey, Jill Naiman, Shy Genel, Annalisa Pillepich, Mark Vogelsberger, Federico Marinacci, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel, Rainer Weinberger, Genel S, Nelson D, Pillepich A, Springel V, Pakmor R, Weinberger R, Hernquist L, Naiman J, Vogelsberger M, Marinacci F, and Torrey P
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Quenching ,Physics ,education.field_of_study ,Stellar mass ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,High Energy Physics::Lattice ,Population ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Star (graph theory) ,methods: numerical, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: formation, galaxies: structure, cosmology: theory ,01 natural sciences ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Galaxy ,Redshift ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,0103 physical sciences ,Growth rate ,education ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Scaling ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics - Abstract
We analyze scaling relations and evolution histories of galaxy sizes in TNG100, part of the IllustrisTNG simulation suite. Observational qualitative trends of size with stellar mass, star-formation rate and redshift are reproduced, and a quantitative comparison of projected r-band sizes at 0~~10^{9.5}Msun, the evolution of the median main progenitor differs, with quenched galaxies hardly growing in median size before quenching, whereas main-sequence galaxies grow their median size continuously, thus opening a gap from the progenitors of quenched galaxies. This is partly because the main-sequence high-redshift progenitors of quenched z=0 galaxies are drawn from the lower end of the size distribution of the overall population of main-sequence high-redshift galaxies. (ii) Quenched galaxies with M_{*,z=0}>~10^{9.5}Msun experience a steep size growth on the size-mass plane after their quenching time, but with the exception of galaxies with M_{*,z=0}>~10^{11}Msun, the size growth after quenching is small in absolute terms, such that most of the size (and mass) growth of quenched galaxies (and its variation among them) occurs while they are still on the main-sequence. After they become quenched, the size growth rate of quenched galaxies as a function of time, as opposed to versus mass, is similar to that of main-sequence galaxies. Hence, the size gap is retained down to z=0., Comment: MNRAS, accepted. 22 pages, 14 figures. Key figures are 2, 5, and 9. www.tng-project.org
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- 2017
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