Title:

Recent Results from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)





Mike Rich
University of California Los Angeles






Abstract:


I will present recent resuls from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer,
an ultraviolet survey satellite that has been operating in orbit
for the last 2 years.  GALEX has discovered a new class of Lyman
break galaxy analogs in the local Universe and has detected
young stars in extended spiral galaxy disks and in the tidal
tails of mergers.  I will emphasize our use of the joint
GALEX/SDSS dataset to derive galaxy properties from their
spectral energy distributions, and to understand the behavior of
the ultraviolet rising flux in old stellar populations.