David R. Law, Shelley A. Wright, Richard S. Ellis, Dawn K. Erb, Nicole Nesvadba, Charles C. Steidel, Mark Swinbank
Published 2009-02-15Version 1
Recent years have witnessed a substantial increase in our ability to trace the spatially resolved properties of rapidly star-forming galaxies in the high-redshift universe and numerous studies have suggested the importance of turbulent gas-phase kinematics. In this submission to the Astro 2010 Decadal survey we outline some of the major outstanding questions regarding the kinematics and formation history of these galaxies, such as the prevalence of various kinematic models, the relation to lower surface-brightness populations and faint AGN, and the implications for the evolution of gas accretion and cooling mechanisms with redshift. We comment on the capability of future large optical/IR and millimeter wavelength facilities to address these questions.
Comments: 8 pages total. White paper submitted to the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey
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