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The Infrared Background Due to Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

F.-X. Désert
Affiliation:
Laboratory Astrophysics Huygens Laboratorium N. Bohrweg 2 Postbus 9504 2300 RA LEIDEN The Netherlands
J. -L Puget
Affiliation:
Groupe de Radioastronomie E. N. S. 24 rue Lhomond 75231 Paris Cedex 5 France

Abstract

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We have investigated the galactic infrared background (GIRB) light that comes from the integrated emission of individual galaxies at different redshifts. By using (1) the galaxy M 82 infrared (IR) spectrum as a template spectrum of IR active galaxies and (2) the constraint given by the nucleosynthesis of the heavy elements in galaxies, we have derived the IR spectrum of the diffuse light that comes from the galaxies at different redshifts following the method by Stecker, Puget, and Fazio (1977). The observations by Matsumoto et al. (1988) impose severe constraints on the possible scenarios for the birth and evolution of the galaxies. Observations by the COBE satellite are expected to settle some important issues of this problem.

Type
IV. Extragalactic Background Radiation and Cosmology
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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