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arxiv: 2606.30719 · v1 · pith:MOVV7O2Znew · submitted 2026-06-29 · 🌌 astro-ph.GA

Global trends in morphology from massive to dwarf galaxies

Ilin Lazar , Sugata Kaviraj , Christopher J. Conselice , Lewi Westcott , Aaron E. Watkins , Sophie Koudmani , Garreth Martin , Thomas M. Sedgwick
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The pith

Galaxies become less concentrated, more asymmetric and less clumpy as stellar mass falls, with bars disappearing below 10^8 solar masses.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The study examines a mass-complete sample of about 1000 galaxies spanning stellar masses from 10^7 to 10^12 solar masses at redshifts below 0.15. It combines JWST-derived concentration, asymmetry and clumpiness values with visual classifications to track how these properties vary with mass and surface brightness. The work also checks how morphology links to recent star-formation history and measures the frequency of bars across the mass range. These measurements show that the usual morphological distinctions between early- and late-type systems weaken at low masses while bar occurrence falls steadily toward zero.

Core claim

Galaxies become less concentrated, more asymmetric and less clumpy with decreasing stellar mass. In both the massive and dwarf regimes, more concentrated and less asymmetric systems are more likely to be red. The bar fraction declines steadily with falling stellar mass and becomes consistent with zero near 10^8 solar masses. As a result, the CAS parameters lose their ability to separate early-type from late-type galaxies in the dwarf regime.

What carries the argument

CAS parameters (concentration, asymmetry and clumpiness) measured from JWST images, together with visual classifications and bar identifications, applied across a mass-complete sample.

If this is right

  • The link between higher concentration, lower asymmetry and redder colors holds in both massive and dwarf regimes.
  • CAS parameters lose leverage for separating morphological types once stellar mass drops below roughly 10^9.5 solar masses.
  • Bar formation appears to require a minimum stellar mass near 10^8 solar masses.
  • Morphological trends with effective surface brightness parallel those with stellar mass.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Models of galaxy assembly must explain why dynamical instabilities that produce bars and central concentration become ineffective below 10^8 solar masses.
  • New morphological metrics tailored to low-mass systems may be needed once CAS parameters lose discriminatory power.
  • The same mass threshold that eliminates bars may also mark a transition in how star-formation quenching couples to structure.
  • Surveys that reach still lower masses could test whether the reported trends continue or flatten.

Load-bearing premise

The JWST-derived CAS parameters remain reliable and directly comparable for low-surface-brightness dwarf galaxies despite possible effects from resolution, noise or surface-brightness limits.

What would settle it

Deep, high-resolution imaging that finds a non-zero bar fraction in galaxies below 10^8 solar masses or shows that CAS values cleanly separate early- and late-type dwarfs would contradict the reported trends.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.30719 by Aaron E. Watkins, Brian Bichang'a, Christopher J. Conselice, Darshan Kakkad, Garreth Martin, Ilin Lazar, Lewi Westcott, Sophie Koudmani, Sugata Kaviraj, Thomas M. Sedgwick.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Example images of ETGs (1, 2), galaxies classified as compact (3), LTGs (4, 5) and those flagged as unclassifiable (6). The size of each image is 5 arcseconds on a side. The images from different instruments have different orientations – we intentionally keep it this way so that each galaxy is visually inspected at different orientations. In each image the first and second columns show the JWST and HSC ima… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The measured sizes of structures in two massive barred galaxies (shown in separate rows). The left-hand column shows the original image of the galaxy, while the right-hand column shows the same image but with measurements of various structures (bar lengths, disk lengths and heights and intra-disk features, such as the width of and spacing between spiral arms) within the galaxy, in units of the number of JW… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Cumulative distributions of the predicted sizes, in JWST pixels, of bar lengths, large-scale (LS) disk structures (such as disk lengths and heights) and intra-disk features in dwarf galaxies at various stellar masses. The top, middle and bottom panels show predictions for dwarf galaxies with 𝑀★ ∼ 109 , 108 and 107 M⊙ respectively. The dotted vertical lines indicate 5 and 10 JWST pixels [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:fi… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Examples of dwarf galaxies in our sample which have bars, identified via visual inspection. The size of each image is 5 arcseconds on a side. The images from different instruments have different orientations - we intentionally keep it this way so that each galaxy is visually inspected at different orientations. Each image has four panels. The first and second columns show the JWST F277W and HSC (𝑔𝑟 𝑖) colo… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The concentration (top), asymmetry (middle) and clumpiness (bot￾tom) distributions for galaxies in three different mass regimes: the lower (107 M⊙ < 𝑀★ < 108.25 M⊙; red) and upper (108.25 M⊙ < 𝑀★ < 109.5 M⊙; blue) halves of the stellar mass range in the dwarf regime and the massive galaxy regime (𝑀★ > 1010 M⊙; green). For each distribution we show the median as a vertical dashed line with an associated err… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: The concentration (top-left), asymmetry (top-right) and clumpiness (bottom-left) distributions in the effective surface brightness – stellar mass plane. The bottom-right panel shows the number of galaxies in different regions of this plane. greater probability for the galaxy to be quenched, largely irrespective of stellar mass. The correlation between concentration and redness can be ex￾plained by the fact… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The asymmetry vs concentration (top) and clumpiness vs concen￾tration planes (bottom) for galaxies in three different mass regimes: the lower (107 M⊙ < 𝑀★ < 108.25 M⊙) and upper (108.25 M⊙ < 𝑀★ < 109.5 M⊙) halves of the stellar mass range in the dwarf regime and the massive galaxy regime (𝑀★ > 1010 M⊙). 3.4 Bars become less frequent with decreasing stellar mass We complete our study by examining the strong… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

The morphological properties of dwarf galaxies (Mstar < 10^9.5 MSun) remain largely unexplored, particularly outside the local neighbourhood. We explore how morphology changes across the massive to dwarf-galaxy regimes, using a mass-complete sample of ~1000 galaxies, with stellar masses and redshifts in the ranges 10^7 MSun < Mstar < 10^12 MSun and z < 0.15 respectively. By combining JWST-derived morphological parameters (concentration, asymmetry and clumpiness; `CAS') and visual morphological classifications, we explore: (1) how morphology changes with stellar mass and effective surface brightness, (2) the connection between morphology and recent star formation history, as a function of stellar mass, (3) how bar frequency changes between the massive and dwarf regimes and (4) how well the CAS parameters perform in separating early- and late-type galaxies, as a function of stellar mass. We demonstrate that galaxies become less concentrated, more asymmetric and less clumpy with decreasing stellar mass. In both mass regimes, galaxies that are more concentrated and less asymmetric are more likely to be red (i.e. quenched). The decrease in concentration towards lower stellar masses results in a loss of the leverage that this parameter can provide in separating early- and late-type galaxies. Thus, while the CAS system successfully separates early- and late-type systems in the massive-galaxy regime, these morphological classes become significantly more difficult to separate, using these parameters, in the dwarf regime. Finally, the bar fraction declines steadily with decreasing stellar mass and becomes consistent with zero at Mstar ~ 10^8 MSun, suggesting a lower limit for the galaxy mass needed to induce bar formation.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that in a mass-complete sample of ~1000 galaxies at z<0.15 spanning 10^7 to 10^12 solar masses, JWST-derived CAS parameters show galaxies become less concentrated, more asymmetric, and less clumpy with decreasing stellar mass. In both mass regimes, higher concentration and lower asymmetry correlate with redder colors. CAS parameters lose leverage for separating early- and late-type galaxies in the dwarf regime, while the bar fraction declines steadily and reaches consistency with zero near 10^8 solar masses.

Significance. If the CAS measurements remain unbiased, the work supplies empirical trends that constrain how morphology scales with stellar mass down to the dwarf regime, using a mass-complete sample that extends beyond the local volume. The reported bar-fraction threshold and the loss of CAS diagnostic power at low mass are potentially useful benchmarks for galaxy-formation models.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods (CAS parameter derivation and sample selection)] The headline trends (declining C, rising A, falling S with Mstar; bar fraction o0 at ~10^8 Msun) rest on the assumption that JWST CAS values are directly comparable from 10^12 down to 10^7 Msun. The methods section must demonstrate that the observed trends are not driven by surface-brightness selection or noise-floor effects in the low-SB dwarf subsample; without recovery tests on simulated low-SB galaxies or explicit SB-limit corrections, the increase in asymmetry and drop in concentration could be partly systematic.
  2. [Results (bar fraction analysis)] Table or figure reporting the bar fraction versus stellar mass: the claim that the fraction becomes consistent with zero at Mstar ~10^8 Msun requires the visual classification completeness and false-positive rate at the lowest masses to be quantified; without these, the statistical significance of the decline cannot be assessed.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract states the sample size as ~1000 but does not break down the number of galaxies per mass decade; adding this would clarify the statistical weight of the dwarf regime.
  2. Ensure that all CAS parameter definitions and any adopted thresholds for bar identification are restated with references in the main text rather than only in supplementary material.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments, which highlight important aspects of robustness that will improve the manuscript. We respond point-by-point to the major comments below.

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  1. Referee: [Methods (CAS parameter derivation and sample selection)] The headline trends (declining C, rising A, falling S with Mstar; bar fraction o0 at ~10^8 Msun) rest on the assumption that JWST CAS values are directly comparable from 10^12 down to 10^7 Msun. The methods section must demonstrate that the observed trends are not driven by surface-brightness selection or noise-floor effects in the low-SB dwarf subsample; without recovery tests on simulated low-SB galaxies or explicit SB-limit corrections, the increase in asymmetry and drop in concentration could be partly systematic.

    Authors: We agree that explicit verification against surface-brightness and noise effects is required to support the robustness of the CAS trends. Our sample is constructed to be mass-complete using stellar-mass estimates, and the JWST imaging depth is sufficient for the included dwarfs; however, we did not include simulated recovery tests in the original submission. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection describing recovery tests in which mock low-SB galaxies are inserted into the real images, CAS parameters are re-measured, and any systematic offsets are quantified and, if necessary, corrected. We will also tabulate the effective surface-brightness limits as a function of stellar mass. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results (bar fraction analysis)] Table or figure reporting the bar fraction versus stellar mass: the claim that the fraction becomes consistent with zero at Mstar ~10^8 Msun requires the visual classification completeness and false-positive rate at the lowest masses to be quantified; without these, the statistical significance of the decline cannot be assessed.

    Authors: We accept that the statistical significance of the bar-fraction decline cannot be fully evaluated without completeness and false-positive estimates at the lowest masses. The original analysis relied on single-pass visual classifications without these metrics. In the revision we will perform repeat classifications on a representative low-mass subsample, derive completeness and contamination fractions, and propagate these into the reported bar fractions and their uncertainties as a function of stellar mass. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical reporting of observed trends

full rationale

The paper measures CAS parameters directly from JWST imaging and performs visual classifications on a mass-complete sample spanning 10^7 to 10^12 Msun. It then reports observed correlations between these quantities and stellar mass, color, and bar presence. No equations, model fits, predictions, or derivations are present that reduce any claimed result to a quantity defined by the paper's own parameters or self-citations. The analysis is self-contained against external benchmarks (imaging data and visual inspection) with no load-bearing self-citation chains or ansatzes.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claims rest on the accuracy of photometric stellar-mass and redshift estimates used to define the mass-complete sample and on the assumption that CAS parameters extracted from JWST imaging are unbiased across the full mass and surface-brightness range.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Stellar masses and redshifts derived from photometry accurately place galaxies in the stated mass and redshift bins.
    Used to construct the mass-complete sample spanning 10^7 to 10^12 Msun.
  • domain assumption CAS morphological parameters measured on JWST images are comparable and unbiased between massive and dwarf galaxies.
    Underpins all reported trends in concentration, asymmetry, and clumpiness.

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