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We present the observed H i size–mass relation of 204 galaxies from the MIGHTEE Survey Early Science data. The high sensitivity of MeerKAT allows us to detect galaxies spanning more than 4 orders of magnitude in H i mass, ranging from dwarf galaxies to massive spirals, and including all morphological types. This is the first time the relation has been explored on a blind homogeneous data set that extends over a previously unexplored redshift range of 0 < z < 0.084, i.e. a period of around one billion years in cosmic time. The sample follows the same tight logarithmic relation derived from previous work, between the diameter ($D_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}$) and the mass ($M_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}$) of H i discs. We measure a slope of 0.501 ± 0.008, an intercept of $-3.252^{+0.073}_{-0.074}$, and an observed scatter of 0.057 dex. For the first time, we quantify the intrinsic scatter of 0.054 ± 0.003 dex (${\sim } 10 {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$), which provides a constraint for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and evolution. We derive the relation as a function of galaxy type and find that their intrinsic scatters and slopes are consistent within the errors. We also calculate the $D_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}{ \!-\! }M_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}$ relation for two redshift bins and do not find any evidence for evolution with redshift. These results suggest that over a period of one billion years in look-back time, galaxy discs have not undergone significant evolution in their gas distribution and mean surface mass density, indicating a lack of dependence on both morphological type and redshift.
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surveys, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, radio lines: galaxies, TULLY-FISHER RELATION, IRREGULAR GALAXIES, STELLAR MASS, ATOMIC GAS, EVOLUTION, ORIGIN, ENVIRONMENT, MORPHOLOGY, ACCRETION, PROJECT

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Rajohnson, Sambatriniaina H. A., et al. “MIGHTEE-HI : The HI Size-Mass Relation over the Last Billion Years.” MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, vol. 512, no. 2, 2022, pp. 2697–706, doi:10.1093/mnras/stac693.
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Rajohnson, S. H. A., Frank, B. S., Ponomareva, A. A., Maddox, N., Kraan-Korteweg, R. C., Jarvis, M. J., … Taylor, R. (2022). MIGHTEE-HI : the HI size-mass relation over the last billion years. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, 512(2), 2697–2706. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac693
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Rajohnson, Sambatriniaina H A, Bradley S Frank, Anastasia A Ponomareva, Natasha Maddox, Renée C Kraan-Korteweg, Matt J Jarvis, Elizabeth A K Adams, et al. 2022. “MIGHTEE-HI : The HI Size-Mass Relation over the Last Billion Years.” MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 512 (2): 2697–2706. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac693.
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Rajohnson, Sambatriniaina H A, Bradley S Frank, Anastasia A Ponomareva, Natasha Maddox, Renée C Kraan-Korteweg, Matt J Jarvis, Elizabeth A K Adams, Tom Oosterloo, Maarten Baes, Kristine Spekkens, Nathan J Adams, Marcin Glowacki, Sushma Kurapati, Isabella Prandoni, Ian Heywood, Jordan D Collier, Srikrishna Sekhar, and Russ Taylor. 2022. “MIGHTEE-HI : The HI Size-Mass Relation over the Last Billion Years.” MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 512 (2): 2697–2706. doi:10.1093/mnras/stac693.
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Rajohnson SHA, Frank BS, Ponomareva AA, Maddox N, Kraan-Korteweg RC, Jarvis MJ, et al. MIGHTEE-HI : the HI size-mass relation over the last billion years. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. 2022;512(2):2697–706.
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S. H. A. Rajohnson et al., “MIGHTEE-HI : the HI size-mass relation over the last billion years,” MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY, vol. 512, no. 2, pp. 2697–2706, 2022.
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  abstract     = {{We present the observed H i size–mass relation of 204 galaxies from the MIGHTEE Survey Early Science data. The high sensitivity of MeerKAT allows us to detect galaxies spanning more than 4 orders of magnitude in H i mass, ranging from dwarf galaxies to massive spirals, and including all morphological types. This is the first time the relation has been explored on a blind homogeneous data set that extends over a previously unexplored redshift range of 0 < z < 0.084, i.e. a period of around one billion years in cosmic time. The sample follows the same tight logarithmic relation derived from previous work, between the diameter ($D_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}$) and the mass ($M_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}$) of H i discs. We measure a slope of 0.501 ± 0.008, an intercept of $-3.252^{+0.073}_{-0.074}$, and an observed scatter of 0.057 dex. For the first time, we quantify the intrinsic scatter of 0.054 ± 0.003 dex (${\sim } 10 {{\ \rm per\ cent}}$), which provides a constraint for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and evolution. We derive the relation as a function of galaxy type and find that their intrinsic scatters and slopes are consistent within the errors. We also calculate the $D_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}{ \!-\! }M_{\rm H\, \small {\rm I}}$ relation for two redshift bins and do not find any evidence for evolution with redshift. These results suggest that over a period of one billion years in look-back time, galaxy discs have not undergone significant evolution in their gas distribution and mean surface mass density, indicating a lack of dependence on both morphological type and redshift.}},
  author       = {{Rajohnson, Sambatriniaina H A and Frank, Bradley S and Ponomareva, Anastasia A and Maddox, Natasha and Kraan-Korteweg, Renée C and Jarvis, Matt J and Adams, Elizabeth A K and Oosterloo, Tom and Baes, Maarten and Spekkens, Kristine and Adams, Nathan J and Glowacki, Marcin and Kurapati, Sushma and Prandoni, Isabella and Heywood, Ian and Collier, Jordan D and Sekhar, Srikrishna and Taylor, Russ}},
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  keywords     = {{surveys,galaxies: evolution,galaxies: kinematics and dynamics,radio lines: galaxies,TULLY-FISHER RELATION,IRREGULAR GALAXIES,STELLAR MASS,ATOMIC GAS,EVOLUTION,ORIGIN,ENVIRONMENT,MORPHOLOGY,ACCRETION,PROJECT}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{2697--2706}},
  title        = {{MIGHTEE-HI : the HI size-mass relation over the last billion years}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac693}},
  volume       = {{512}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}

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