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  • THE EPOCH OF DISK SETTLING:...
    KASSIN, Susan A; WEINER, Benjamin J; KOO, David C; METEVIER, A. J; NOESKE, Kai G; PRIMACK, Joel R; FABER, S. M; GARDNER, Jonathan P; WILLMER, C. N. A; COIL, Alison L; COOPER, Michael C; DEVRIENDT, Julien; DUTTON, Aaron A; GUHATHAKURTA, Puragra

    The Astrophysical journal, 10/2012, Letnik: 758, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    We present evidence from a sample of 544 galaxies from the DEEP2 Survey for evolution of the internal kinematics of blue galaxies with stellar masses ranging 8.0 < logM (M) < 10.7 over 0.2 < z < 1.2. DEEP2 provides galaxy spectra and Hubble imaging from which we measure emission-line kinematics and galaxy inclinations, respectively. Our large sample allows us to overcome scatter intrinsic to galaxy properties in order to examine trends in kinematics. In summary, over the last ~8 billion years since z = 1.2, blue galaxies evolve from disordered to ordered systems as they settle to become the rotation-dominated disk galaxies observed in the universe today, with the most massive galaxies being the most evolved at any time.