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Introductory Remarks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

P. J. E. Peebles*
Affiliation:
Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA

Abstract

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I review the assumptions and observations that motivate the concept of the extragalactic cosmic background radiation, and the issues of energy accounts and star formation history as a function of galaxy morphological type that figure in the interpretation of the measurements of the extragalactic infrared background.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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