The spin of late-type galaxies at redshifts z < 1.2
  We study the evolution of the galactic spin using data of high redshift
galaxies in the fields of the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).
Through simple dynamical considerations we estimate the spin for the disc
galaxies in our sample and find that its distribution is consistent with that
found for nearby galaxies. Defining a dimensionless angular momentum parameter
for the disc component of the galaxies ($\lambda_{d}$), we do not find signs of
evolution in the redshift range $0.4 \leq z \leq 1.2$. We find that the mass
and environmental dependence of the spin of our high redshift galaxies are
similar to that of low-$z$ galaxies; showing a strong dependence on mass, in
the sense that low-mass systems present higher $\lambda_{d}$ values than
high-mass galaxies, with no significant dependence on the environmental
density. These results lead us to conclude that, although individual disc
galaxies might occasionally suffer from strong evolution, they evolve in such a
way that the overall spin distribution of the galactic population remains
constant from $z\sim1$ to the present epoch.
