Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z ≥1.2

Mark J. Devlin; Peter A.R. Ade; Itziar Aretxaga; James J. Bock; Edward L. Chapin; Matthew Griffin; Joshua O. Gundersen; Mark Halpern; Peter C. Hargrave; David H. Hughes; Jeff Klein; Gaelen Marsden; Peter G. Martin; Philip Mauskopf; Lorenzo Moncelsi; Calvin B. Netterfield; Henry Ngo; Luca Olmi; Enzo Pascale; Guillaume Patanchon; Marie Rex; Douglas Scott; Christopher Semisch; Nicholas Thomas; Matthew D.P. Truch; Carole Tucker; Gregory S. Tucker; Marco P. Viero; Donald V. Wiebe

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Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z ≥1.2

Mark J. Devlin, Peter A.R. Ade, Itziar Aretxaga, James J. Bock, Edward L. Chapin, Matthew Griffin, Joshua O. Gundersen, Mark Halpern, Peter C. Hargrave, David H. Hughes, Jeff Klein, Gaelen Marsden, Peter G. Martin, Philip Mauskopf, Lorenzo Moncelsi, Calvin B. Netterfield, Henry Ngo, Luca Olmi, Enzo Pascale, Guillaume PatanchonMarie Rex, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Nicholas Thomas, Matthew D.P. Truch, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Marco P. Viero, Donald V. Wiebe

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Submillimetre surveys during the past decade have discovered a population of luminous, high-redshift, dusty starburst galaxies. In the redshift range 1 z 4, these massive submillimetre galaxies go through a phase characterized by optically obscured star formation at rates several hundred times that in the local Universe. Half of the starlight from this highly energetic process is absorbed and thermally re-radiated by clouds of dust at temperatures near 30 K with spectral energy distributions peaking at 100 m in the rest frame. At 1 z 4, the peak is redshifted to wavelengths between 200 and 500 m. The cumulative effect of these galaxies is to yield extragalactic optical and far-infrared backgrounds with approximately equal energy densities. Since the initial detection of the far-infrared background (FIRB), higher-resolution experiments have sought to decompose this integrated radiation into the contributions from individual galaxies. Here we report the results of an extragalactic survey at 250, 350 and 500 m. Combining our results at 500 m with those at 24 m, we determine that all of the FIRB comes from individual galaxies, with galaxies at z 1.2 accounting for 70% of it. As expected, at the longest wavelengths the signal is dominated by ultraluminous galaxies at z 1.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	737-739
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature
Volume	458
Issue number	7239
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07918
State	Published - Apr 9 2009
Externally published	Yes

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Devlin, M. J., Ade, P. A. R., Aretxaga, I., Bock, J. J., Chapin, E. L., Griffin, M., Gundersen, J. O., Halpern, M., Hargrave, P. C., Hughes, D. H., Klein, J., Marsden, G., Martin, P. G., Mauskopf, P., Moncelsi, L., Netterfield, C. B., Ngo, H., Olmi, L., Pascale, E., ... Wiebe, D. V. (2009). Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z ≥1.2. Nature, 458(7239), 737-739. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07918

Devlin, MJ, Ade, PAR, Aretxaga, I, Bock, JJ, Chapin, EL, Griffin, M, Gundersen, JO, Halpern, M, Hargrave, PC, Hughes, DH, Klein, J, Marsden, G, Martin, PG, Mauskopf, P, Moncelsi, L, Netterfield, CB, Ngo, H, Olmi, L, Pascale, E, Patanchon, G, Rex, M, Scott, D, Semisch, C, Thomas, N, Truch, MDP, Tucker, C, Tucker, GS, Viero, MP & Wiebe, DV 2009, 'Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z ≥1.2', Nature, vol. 458, no. 7239, pp. 737-739. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07918

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