Half-mass radii for ~7000 galaxies at 1.0<=z<=2.5

We find that color gradient strength has significant trends with increasing stellar mass, half-light radius, U-V color, and stellar mass surface density. These trends have not been seen before at z>1. Furthermore, color gradients of star-forming and quiescent galaxies show a similar redshift evolution: they are flat at z>~2, then steeply decrease as redshift decreases.

This affects the galaxy mass-size relation. The normalizations of the star-forming and quiescent r_mass_-M_*_ relations are 10%-40% smaller than the corresponding r_light_-M_*_ relations; the slopes are ~0.1-0.3dex shallower. Finally, the half-mass radii of star-forming and quiescent galaxies at M_*_=10^10.5^M_{sun}_ only grow by ~1% and ~8% between z~2.25 and z~1.25.

This is significantly less than the ~37% and ~47% size increases found when using the half-light radius.