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Studying star formation at low and high redshift with integral field spectroscopy
(2011-05) Blanc, Guillermo; Gebhardt, Karl; Evans, Neal J.; Hill, Gary J.; Bromm, Volker; Gawiser, Eric
In this thesis I focus mainly in studying the process of star formation in both high redshift, and local star forming galaxies, by using an observational technique called integral field spectroscopy (IFS). Although these investigations are aimed at studying the star formation properties of these objects, throughout this work I will also discuss the geometric, kinematic, and chemical structures in the inter-stellar medium of these galaxies, which are intimately connected with the process of star formation itself. The studies presented here were conducted under the umbrella of two different projects. First, the HETDEX Pilot Survey for Emission Line Galaxies, where I have studied the properties of Ly-alpha emitting galaxies across the 2