Lyman Break Analogs: Constraints on the Formation of Extreme Starbursts at Low and High Redshift

Thiago S. Gonçalves, Roderik Overzier, Antara Basu-Zych +1

Lyman Break Analogs (LBAs), characterized by high far-UV luminosities and surface brightnesses as detected by GALEX, are intensely star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift univers…