Global effects of interactions on galaxy evolution

Recent observations of the evolutionary properties of paired and interacting galaxies are reviewed, with special emphasis on their global emission properties and star formation rates. Data at several wavelengths provide strong confirmation of the hypothesis, proposed originally by Larson and Tinsley, that interactions trigger global bursts of star formation in galaxies. The nature and properties of the starbursts, and their overall role in galactic evolution are also discussed

Revisiting the Integrated Star Formation Law. Paper I: Non-Starbursting Galaxies

This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This research was supported in part by the STFC through a consolidated grant to the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. M. A. de los Reyes also acknowledges the financial support of the Winston Churchill Foundation and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The authors would like to thank the anonymous referee for their thoughtful and constructive comments, as well as M. Irwin, A. Saintonge, L. Hunt, and J. Wang for their useful comments and advice. Finally, we would like to express our deep gratitude to the staff at academic and telescope facilities, particularly those whose communities are excluded from the academic system, but whose labor maintains spaces for scientific inquiry. Software: Matplotlib (Hunter 2007), Linmix (Meyers 2015), Astropy (Astropy Collaboration et al. 2013)