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Caption: Figure 3.
Re at fixed stellar mass (5 × 1010M⊙) (top panels) and Sérsic parameter n (bottom) vs. sSFR for each SED type. In the top-left panel Re is calculated using different slopes for the ﹩{R}_{{\rm{e}}}\mbox{--}M﹩ relation for quiescent and star-forming galaxies, while in the top-right panel we use the same slope. The size of each datapoint scales with the number of galaxies contained in each type and the color coding reflects the mean redshift. For star-forming galaxies (>10−11 yr−1) Re gradually decreases with decreasing sSFR, while for quiescent galaxies (>10−11 yr−1) we find an opposite trend, with post-starburst SED types 6 and 7 being much smaller than older quiescent SED types. The Sérsic parameter gradually increases—from n ∼ 1 to n ∼ 4—with decreasing sSFR.
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