Resolved Star Formation Properties of High-z Galaxies

Abstract: Star-forming galaxies at z>1 have been identified in a number of ways, most notably on the basis of their rest-UV colors (e.g., Lyman break galaxies) or their high rest-FIR luminosity (submillimeter galaxies). Given the different selection methods for these two populations, the types of characterizations that are possible are almost mutually exclusive, and at least suffer from significant systematics. Not only does this make it challenging to compare high-z populations to one another, but it also prevents multi-wavelength analyses like the Schmidt-Kennicutt relation, which have played an important role in understanding star formation (and thus galaxy evolution) in the local universe. I will be discussing recent progress in spatially resolved multi-wavelength characterizations of star formation within high-z galaxies, focusing on the small number of systems where the true surface density version of the Schmidt-Kennicutt law has been measured (including some of my
own work).