Abstract
The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) has recently conducted an extragalactic submillimetric survey of the Chandra Deep Field South region of unprecedented size, depth, and angular resolution in three wavebands centered at 250, 350, and 500μm. BLAST wavelengths are chosen to study the Cosmic Infrared Background near its peak at 200μm. We find that most of the CIB at these wavelengths is contributed by galaxies detected at 24μby the MIPS instrument on Spitzer, and that the source counts distribution shows a population with strongly evolving density and luminosity. These results anticipate what can be expected from the surveys that will be conducted with the SPIRE instrument on the Herschel space observatory.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 411-415 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | EAS Publications Series |
Volume | 40 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- General Engineering
- Space and Planetary Science