WHILE THE PROCESSES REGULATING STAR FORMATION AND THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM IN MASSIVE INTERACTING GALAXIES HAVE BEEN STUDIED EXTENSIVELY THE EXTENT TO WHICH THESE PROCESSES OCCUR IN THE SHALLOWER GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL WELLS OF LOWER MASS DWARF GALAXIES IS RELATIVELY UNCONSTRAINED. WHILE DWARF GALAXIES ARE KNOWN TO UNDERGO STARBURSTS (HECKMAN ET AL. 1998; JOHNSON ET AL. 2000) THE ORIGINS OF THESE BURSTS REMAIN UNCLEAR AND INTERACTIONS AND MERGERS WITH OTHER DWARFS HAVE NOT BEEN RULED OUT (LELLI ET AL. 2012; KOLEVA ET AL. 2014). THESE GAS-RICH DWARF GALAXIES IN THE NEARBY UNIVERSE ARE EXPECTED TO OFFER GLIMPSES OF STAR FORMATION MODES AT HIGH REDSHIFT WITH THEIR LOW METAL CONTENT AND LARGE AMOUNTS OF FUEL FOR FORMING STARS. GIVEN THAT DWARF-DWARF MERGERS DOMINATE THE MERGER RATE AT ANY GIVEN REDSHIFT (I.E. DE LUCIA ET AL. 2006; FAKHOURI ET AL. 2010) THIS LACK OF OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS LEAVES A SIGNIFICANT MODE OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE UNIVERSE MOSTLY UNEXPLORED. WHILE A FEW INDIVIDUAL DWARF MERGERS/PAIRS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED (E.G. HENIZE 2-10: REINES ET AL. 2012; NGC4490: CLEMENS ET AL. 1998; NGC3448: NOREAU &KRONBERG 1986; IIZW40: LEQUEUX ET AL. 1980) A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF THE STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF INTERACTING DWARFS AS A POPULATION HAS NEVER BEEN DONE. WE PROPOSE TO OBTAIN AND FURTHER PROCESS NEAR- AND FAR-ULTRAVIOLET (NUV/FUV) NEAR-INFRARED (NIR) AND MID-INFRARED (MIR) IMAGING FOR A SAMPLE OF 58 DWARF GALAXY PAIRS (116 DWARFS) AND 348 UNPAIRED DWARFS (ANALOGS MATCHED IN STELLAR MASS REDSHIFT AND LOCAL DENSITY ENHANCEMENT) USING THE NASA ARCHIVES FOR THE GALAXY EVOLUTION EXPLORER (GALEX; MARTIN ET AL. 2003) THE TWO MICRON ALL SKY SURVEY (2MASS; SKRUTSKIE ET AL. 2006) AND THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER (WISE; WRIGHT ET AL. 2010) MISSIONS. WE AIM TO CHARACTERIZE THE IMPACT INTERACTIONS HAVE ON FUELING STAR FORMATION IN THE NEARBY UNIVERSE FOR A COMPLETE SAMPLE OF DWARF GALAXY PAIRS CAUGHT IN A VARIETY OF INTERACTION STAGES FROM THE TINY TITANS SURVEY. THE ARCHIVAL UV OBSERVATIONS WILL FIRST ALLOW US TO DETERMINE THE PRESENCE OF STELLAR BRIDGES AND TIDAL TAILS AND WHETHER DWARF-DWARF INTERACTIONS ALONE CAN TRIGGER SIGNIFICANT LEVELS OF STAR FORMATION AND/OR REMOVE STARS FROM THEIR HOST GALAXIES. WE WILL THEN USE THE UV AND IR PHOTOMETRY TO PLACE AGE CONSTRAINTS ON THE STELLAR POPULATIONS AND TO DETERMINE STELLAR MASS SURFACE DENSITIES AGES AND HOST GALAXY STELLAR MASS AS A FUNCTION OF PAIR SEPARATION AND DWARF-DWARF MASS RATIO. WE WILL DISTINGUISH TIDALLY TRIGGERED STAR FORMATION FROM STAR FORMATION DERIVED FROM STOCHASTIC PROCESSES BY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE WEALTH OF OBSERVATIONS AVAILABLE IN ALL THREE ARCHIVES FOR "NORMAL" NON-INTERACTING DWARFS THAT WE HAVE CAREFULLY SELECTED TO BE ANALOGS TO OUR PAIRED DWARFS (MATCHED IN STELLAR MASS REDSHIFT AND ENVIRONMENT) AND BY COMPARING THE STELLAR POPULATIONS OF THOSE DWARFS WITH THE INTERACTING DWARFS IN OUR SAMPLE. ULTIMATELY WE CAN COMBINE THE UV AND IR IMAGING FROM THIS PROPOSAL WITH GROUND-BASED OPTICAL PHOTOMETRY FROM OUR CURRENT ONGOING PROGRAM TO MODEL THE STAR FORMATION HISTORIES OF THESE DWARFS AS PART OF A LARGER MULTI-WAVELENGTH EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND THE ROLE LOW-MASS MERGERS PLAY IN GALAXY EVOLUTION. THIS STUDY WILL THUS CHARACTERIZE EVIDENCE FOR THE HIERARCHICAL EVOLUTION OF DWARF GALAXIES AS WELL AS THE EXTENT OF PRE-PROCESSING (I.E. DWARF-DWARF INTERACTIONS OCCURRING BEFORE THE ACCRETION BY A MASSIVE HOST) THAT OCCURS.
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