Cake Talk by Riley Tam from Caltech
Recent observations have found a correlation for galaxies between their gas temperatures in star-forming clouds and specific Star Formation Rate (sSFR). The resulting model has led to several new predictions, such as inside out galaxy growth, compact galaxies at high redshifts and distinct morphological phases of galactic evolution. We employ GIDGET, a one-dimensional semi-analytical radius dependent galaxy evolution model, to explore these observational results. We find broadly similar behaviour of inside out galaxy growth and changing morphology. Additionally, we present new predictions for the nature of galaxy evolution with implications for their behaviour right after formation and for the extrapolation of the star-forming main sequence to lower masses.