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Paper: Structure and Evolution of Nearby UV-bright Starburst Galaxies
Volume: 197, XVth IAP Meeting Dynamics of Galaxies: From the Early Universe to the Present
Page: 309
Authors: Gallagher, J. S.; Conselice, C. J.; Homeier, N.; the WFPC2 Investigation Definition Team
Abstract: Nearby (D <= 100 Mpc) luminous blue starburst galaxies frequently show morphological evidence for recent involvement in mild collisions, or minor mergers where the disk survives. As a consequence UV-bright starbursts are preferentially seen in near face-on galaxies, and the postburst systems may become star-forming late-type galaxies. If this starburst evolutionary channel is important at moderate redshifts, then descendants of the faint blue galaxies could be the very common Sm-Sd field galaxies.
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