Bibcode
Trujillo, Ignacio; Azzollini, Ruyman; Bakos, Judit; Beckman, John; Pohlen, Michael
Bibliographical reference
The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 254. Edited by J. Andersen, J. Bland-Hawthorn, and B. Nordström, p. 127-132
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2009
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Description
We present our recent results on the cosmic evolution of the outskirts
of disk galaxies. In particular we focus on disk-like galaxies with
stellar disk truncations. Using UDF, GOODS and SDSS 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 redshifts 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 constraint 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.