Bibcode
Bakos, J.; Trujillo, I.; Azzollini, R.; Beckman, J. E.; Pohlen, M.
Bibliographical reference
Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana Supplement, v.18, p.113 (2011)
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2011
Citations
7
Refereed citations
6
Description
We present our recent results on the properties of the outskirts of disk
galaxies. In particular, we focus on spiral galaxies with stellar disk
truncations in their radial surface brightness profiles. Using SDSS, UDF
and GOODS data we show how the position of the break (i.e., a direct
estimator of the size of the stellar disk) evolves with time since
z˜1. Our findings agree with an evolution on the radial position
of the break by a factor of 1.3±0.1 in the last 8 Gyr for
galaxies with similar stellar masses. We also present radial color
gradients and how they evolve with time. At all redshift we find a
radial inside-out bluing reaching a minimum at the position of the break
radius, this minimum is followed by a reddening outwards. Our results
constrain several galaxy disk formation models and favour a scenario
where stars are formed inside the break radius and are relocated in the
outskirts of galaxies through secular processes.