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Models for Infrared and Submillimetre Counts and Backgrounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Michael Rowan-Robinson*
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BZ

Abstract

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A simple and versatile parametrized approach to the star formation history allows a quantitative investigation of the constraints from far infrared and submillimetre counts and background intensity measurements.

The models include four spectral components: infrared cirrus, an M 82-like starburst, an Arp 220-like starburst and an AGN dust torus. The 60 μm luminosity function is determined for each chosen rate of evolution using the PSCz redshift data for 15000 galaxies. The proportions of each spectral type as a function of 60 μm luminosity are chosen for consistency with IRAS and SCUBA colour-luminosity relations, and with the fraction of AGN as a function of luminosity found in 12 μm samples.

A good fit to the observed counts at 0.44, 2.2, 15, 60, 90, 175 and 850 μm can be found with pure luminosity evolution in all 3 cosmological models investigated: Ω0 = 1, Ω0 = 0.3 (Λ = 0), and Ω0 = 0.3, Λ = 0.7. All 3 models also give an acceptable fit to the integrated background spectrum. The total mass-density of stars generated in all 3 cosmological models is consistent with that observed.

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Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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