2008/01/09 by Dutton, Aaron A., Courteau, Stéphane
#Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0801.1506
The scaling relations between rotation velocity, size and luminosity form a benchmark test for any theory of disk galaxy formation. We confront recent theoretical models of disk formation to a recent large compilation of such scaling relations. We stress the importance of achieving a fair comparison between models and observations.