J/ApJ/960/53ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/960/53CDSvan der Wel A.Martorano M.Haussler B.Nedkova K.V.Miller T.B.,Brammer G.B.van de Ven G.Leja J.Bezanson R.S.Muzzin A.,Marchesini D.de Graaff A.Nelson E.J.Kriek M.Bell E.F.Franx M.2026-05-04T07:43:19Z2026-04-14T08:20:14ZCDS support team

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cds-question@unistra.frgalaxiesinfrared-sourcesgalaxy-radiiredshiftedsurveysWe use CEERS JWST/NIRCam imaging to measure rest-frame near-IR light profiles of 435 M*>10^10^M_{sun}_ galaxies in the redshift range of 0.5<z<2.3. We compare the resulting rest-frame 1.5-2{mu}m half-light radii (RNIR) with stellar half-mass radii (R_M*_) derived with multicolor light profiles from CANDELS Hubble Space Telescope imaging. In general agreement with previous work, we find that RNIR and R_M*_ are up to 40% smaller than the rest-frame optical half-light radius Ropt. The agreement between RNIR and R_M*_ is excellent, with a negligible systematic offset (<0.03dex) up to z=2 for quiescent galaxies and up to z=1.5 for star-forming galaxies. We also deproject the profiles to estimate R_M*,3D_, the radius of a sphere containing 50% of the stellar mass. We present the R-M* distribution of galaxies at 0.5<z<1.5, comparing Ropt, R_M*_, and R_M*,3D_. The slope is significantly flatter for R_M*_ and R_M*,3D_ compared to Ropt, mostly due to downward shifts in size for massive star-forming galaxies, while R_M*_ and R_M*,3D_ do not show markedly different trends. Finally, we show rapid evolution of the size (R{propto}(1+z)^-1.7+/-0.1^) of massive (M*>10^11^M_{sun}_) quiescent galaxies between z=0.5 and z=2.3, again comparing Ropt, R_M*_, and R_M*,3D_. We conclude that the main tenets of the evolution of the size narrative established over the past 20yr, based on rest-frame optical light profile analysis, still hold in the era of JWST/NIRCam observations in the rest-frame near-IR.2024ApJ...960...53Vhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/960/53CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toJ/AJ/100/1091 : UBR photometry of 39 elliptical galaxies (Peletier+ 1990)J/ApJ/604/521 : Luminosities & masses of galaxies out to z~3 (Trujillo+, 2004)J/ApJS/203/24 : Structural param. of galaxies in CANDELS (van der Wel+, 2012)J/ApJ/763/73 : Surface density profiles of GOODS-South gal. (Szomoru+, 2013)J/ApJS/214/24 : 3D-HST+CANDELS catalog (Skelton+, 2014)J/MNRAS/476/1765 : MaNGA E and S galaxies properties (Li+, 2018)J/ApJ/877/103 : Half-mass radii for galaxies at 1.0<=z<=2.5 (Suess+, 2019)J/ApJ/905/170 : Mass-based structural param. for 3D-HST gal. (Mosleh+, 2020)J/MNRAS/506/928 : Stellar mass-size relation for low M* gal. (Nedkova+, 2021)J/ApJ/937/L33 : JWST morphological data at 4.4um & 1.5um (Suess+, 2022)J/ApJ/945/155 : Color gradients of 3D-HST gal. (Miller+, 2023)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/960/53https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/960/53http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/960/53https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/960/53https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/960/53http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/960/53GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJ/960/53/table2 (Stellar half-mass radii)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/960/53/table2?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/960/53/table2?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/960/53/table2?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true215.2997588953.051308060.0055555555555555566/11252 11425 17679 17688 17690 27258 35935https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJ/960/53?format=asciiInfrareddefaultJ/ApJ/960/53/table2Stellar half-mass radiirecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintFID[1/5] CANDELS field as number (1)meta.codeintFieldCANDELS field; column added by CDSmeta.id;obs.fieldcharID[18/45616] Galaxy ID within Field (2)meta.id.part;meta.mainintRAJ2000[34.2/215.4] Right ascension (J2000) (2)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainindexedDEJ2000[-28/62.4] Declination (J2000) (2)degpos.eq.dec;meta.mainindexedzphot[0.5/2.3] Photometric redshiftsrc.redshiftfloatlogMs[8.7/11.8] Log of stellar mass (3)log(solMass)phys.massfloatE_logMs[0.005/0.7] Upper uncertainty on logMslog(solMass)stat.error;stat.max;phys.massfloate_logMs[0.007/0.8] Lower uncertainty on logMslog(solMass)stat.error;stat.min;phys.massfloatOT[0/1] Quiescent = 1, star forming = 0 (Sec. 2.2)meta.code.classintRh[0.17/124] Projected (2D) stellar half-mass radius (Sec. 2.4) (4)kpcphys.size.radiusfloate_Rh[0.01/9.99] Uncertainty on Rhkpcstat.error;phys.size.radiusfloatRh3D[0.18/114] Deprojected (3D) stellar half-mass radius (Sec. 2.6) (5)kpcphys.size.radiusfloate_Rh3D[0.058/18] Uncertainty on Rh3Dkpcstat.error;phys.size.radiusfloatSimbadNameSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.idcharnullable