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A Bending in the Size–Mass Relation of Star-forming Galaxies across 0.5 < z < 6.0 at a Critical Stellar Mass of 1010M Revealed by JWST

  • Authors: Longyue Chen, Tao Wang, Hanwen Sun, Ke Xu, Luwenjia Zhou, Tiancheng Yang, Maxime Tarrasse, Houjun Mo, Zhaozhou Li, Yangyao Chen, Avishai Dekel, Emanuele Daddi, Xuheng Ding, Mauro Giavalisco, David Elbaz

Longyue Chen et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 .

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Caption: Figure 5.

Redshift evolution of the size–mass relations and associated parameters for SFGs at 1.0 < z < 6.0. Left: evolution of the size–mass relations for SFGs. The solid lines represent the best-fit relations using a broken power-law model, with pivots indicated by purple dots. Middle: evolution of the parameters from power-law fits, including k (red triangle), α (blue dots), and β (green squares) from broken power-law fits. Right: evolution of the parameters from power-law fits in logarithmic scale. The top panel shows the intercept (magenta dots) from the single power-law model fits, while the bottom panel shows the pivot mass (purple dots) and pivot Re (orange dots) from broken power-law model fits. The best-fit single power-law parameters from A. van der Wel et al. (2014; black stars) and E. Ward et al. (2024; black inverted triangles) are also shown for comparison.

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