{
  "id": "astro-ph/9801078",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "1998-01-10T15:24:26.000Z",
  "updated": "1998-01-10T15:24:26.000Z",
  "title": "Early-type Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field. The <mu_e>-r_e relation and the lack of large galaxies at high redshift",
  "authors": [
    "G. Fasano",
    "S. Cristiani",
    "S. Arnouts",
    "M. Filippi"
  ],
  "comment": "30 pages, LaTeX with aasms4.sty macros, 9 embedded postscript figures + 1 postscript Table. To appear in the Astronomical Journal",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present the results of the detailed surface photometry of a sample of early-type galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field. Effective radii, surface brightnesses and total V_606 magnitudes have been obtained, as well as U_300, B_450, I_814, J, H and K colors, which are compared with the predictions of chemical-spectrophotometric models of population synthesis. Spectroscopic redshifts are available for 23 objects. For other 25 photometric redshifts are given. In the <mu_e>-r_e plane the early-type galaxies of the HDF, once the appropriate K+E corrections are applied, turn out to follow the `rest frame' Kormendy relation. This evidence, linked to the dynamical information gathered by Steidel et al.(1996), indicates that these galaxies, even at z~2-3, lie in the Fundamental Plane, in a virial equilibrium condition. At the same redshifts a statistically significant lack of large galaxies [i.e. with Log r_e(kpc) > 0.2] is observed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "1998-01-10T15:24:26.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "hubble deep field",
      "early-type galaxies",
      "large galaxies",
      "high redshift",
      "virial equilibrium condition"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1086/300280"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "LaTeX",
      "pages": 30,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 466304
    }
  }
}