George, Angelo (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2020)
The study of galaxy morphology can provide important information about how galaxies evolve. In this thesis, we study size and concentration of light profiles for ∼15000 star-forming galaxies (SFGs, M<sub>∗</sub><span>≳</span>10<sup>9.5</sup> M<sub><span>☉</span></sub>) and ∼5000 massive quiescent galaxies (QGs, M<sub>∗</sub><span>≳</span>10<sup>10</sup> M<sub><span>☉</span></sub>) in the COSMOS/UltraVISTA region using CLAUDS+HSC-SSP griz bands at 0.1<z<0.9. We find a slow evolution in the characteristic sizes of SFGs, R<sub>e</sub>∝(1+z)<sup>−0.45</sup>, which is consistent with the growth of their bulges. In contrast, the characteristic size of QGs grows faster, R<sub>e</sub>∝(1+z)<sup>−1.06</sup>, driven by several physical processes including progenitor bias, adiabatic expansion, and merging. Analysis of 75 cluster galaxies does not show any significant difference from the field galaxies. However, a separate analysis of ∼130 spectroscopically confirmed members of five cluster cores from the HST CLASH survey provide evidence for the effects of the densest environments on QG size....