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Color-size Relations of Disk Galaxies with Equivalent Masses |
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| Authors: | Fu Wei Chang Rui-xiang Shen Shi-yin Zhang Bo |
| Institution: | a College of Physics Science and Information Technology, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050016 b Key Laboratory for Research in Galaxies and Cosmology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030 c Key Laboratory for Astrophysics, Shanghai 200234 |
| Abstract: | The local face-on disk galaxies are selected as galaxy sample from the main galaxy sample of the Seventh Data Release of Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS DR7). The correlations between the colors and sizes of disk galaxies with equivalent total stellar masses are statistically investigated and their realities are tested. It is found that for the disk galaxies with equivalent masses, the correlation between u-r color and size is very weak. However, there are anticorrelations between g-r, r-i, r-z colors and sizes, i.e., the larger are the sizes of galaxies, the bluer are their colors. This result means that the mass distribution of disk galaxies has a significant influence on their star formation history. The galaxies with more extended mass distributions evolve more slowly. |
| Keywords: | galaxies: evolution galaxies: spiral galaxies: statistics |
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