An explanation for the observed weak size evolution of disk galaxies

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Somerville, Rachel S
Barden, Marco
Rix, Hans-Walter
Bell, Eric F
Beckwith, Steven V W
Borch, Andrea
Caldwell, John A R
Haussler, Boris
Heymans, Catherine
Jahnke, Knud

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IOP Publishing

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Surveys of distant galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope and from the ground have shown that there is only mild evolution in the relationship between radial size and stellar mass for galactic disks from z ∼ 1 to the present day. Using a sample of nea

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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2037-12-31