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Cosmic infrared background

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1118: 963:. The detection of fluctuations is easier than the direct CIB measurements, since one does not need to determine the absolute photometric zero point ā€“ fluctuations can be derived from differential measurements. On the other hand, fluctuations do not provide an immediate information on the CIB brightness. The measured fluctuation amplitudes either has to be confronted with a CIB model that has a prediction for the fluctuation / absolute level ratio, or it has to be compared with integrated differential light levels of 665:, early galaxies must have been significantly more powerful than they are today. In the early CIB models the absorption of starlight was neglected, therefore in these models the CIB peaked between 1ā€“10Ī¼m wavelengths. These early models have already shown correctly that the CIB was most probably fainter than its foregrounds, and so it was very difficult to observe. Later the discovery and observations of high luminosity infrared galaxies in the vicinity of the 559: 36: 1052:, and Ī± is the spectral index. Ī± was found to be Ī±ā‰ˆ-3, which is much steeper than the power spectrum of the CIB at low spatial frequencies. The cirrus component can be identified in the power spectrum at low spatial frequencies and then removed from the whole spatial frequency range. The remaining power spectrum ā€“ after a careful correction for instrument effects ā€“ should be that of the CIB. 571: 1132: 951:
Since the CIB is an accumulated light of individual sources there is always a somewhat different number of sources in different directions in the field of view of the observer. This cause a variation (fluctuation) in the total amount of observed incoming flux among the different line of sights. These
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dates back to the first half of the 19th century. Despite its importance, the first attempts were made only in the 1950-60s to derive the value of the visual background due to galaxies, at that time based on the integrated starlight of these stellar systems. In the 1960s the absorption of starlight
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densities, since they originate from the same, low-density structure. After the removal of the HI-correlated part, the remaining surface brightness was identified as the cosmic infrared background at 60, 100, 140, and 240Ī¼m. At shorter wavelengths the CIB level could not be correctly determined.
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component. The measurement has to be repeated in many directions to determine the contribution of the foregrounds. After the removal of all other components the remaining power ā€“ if it is the same constant value in any direction ā€“ is the CIB at that specific wavelength. In practice, one needs an
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The detection of the CIB is both observationally and astrophysically very challenging. It has a very few characteristics which can be used to separate it from the foregrounds. One major point is, that the CIB must be isotropic, i.e. one has to measure the same CIB value all over the sky. It also
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Source count results support the "fast evolution" galaxy models. In these models galaxies nowadays look significantly different than they were at z=1...2, when they were coming through an intense star-formation phase. The source count results exclude the "steady state" scenarios, where z=1...2
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contribution (which was based on the measured annual variation) the remaining power at longer infrared wavelength contained basically two components: the CIB and the Galactic cirrus emission. The infrared surface brightness of the Galactic cirrus must correlate with the neutral hydrogen column
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one tries to detect as many point/compact sources in a certain field of view as possible: this is usually done at multiple wavelengths and is often complemented by other data, e.g. photometry at visual or sub-millimeter wavelengths. In this way, one has information on the broad band spectral
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period: they are just in a collision or in a merge with another galaxy. In the optical this is hidden by the huge amount of dust, and the galaxy is bright in the infrared due to the same reason. Galaxy collisions and mergers were more frequent in the cosmic past: the global
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characteristics of the detected sources, too. The detected point sources have to be distinguished from other contaminating sources, e.g. minor bodies in the Solar System, Galactic stars and cirrus knots (local density enhancements in the Galactic cirrus emission).
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of the galaxies found in our cosmic neighborhood. However, these simple models could not reproduce the observed features of the CIB. In the baryonic material of the Universe there are two sources of large amounts of energy: nuclear fusion and gravitation.
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The power spectrum of the CIB is usually presented in a spatial frequency vs. fluctuation power diagram. It is contaminated by the presence of the power spectrum of foreground components, so that the total power spectrum is:
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In the far-infrared the CIB power spectrum can be effectively used to separate it from its strongest foreground, the Galactic cirrus emission. The cirrus emission has a characteristic power spectrum of a power-law (that of a
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are practically dustless), there are some special stellar systems even in our vicinity which are extremely bright in the infrared and at the same time faint (often almost invisible) in the optical. These
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In the early 1980s there were only upper limits available for the CIB. The real observations of the CIB began after the era of astronomical satellites working in the infrared, started by the
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lacks suspicious spectral features, since the final shape of its spectrum is the sum of the spectra of sources in the line of sight at various redshifts.
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G. Lagache; et al. (2007). "Correlated anisotropies in the cosmic far-infrared background detected by MIPS/Spitzer: Constraint on the bias".
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Direct measurements are simple, but very difficult. One just has to measure the total incoming power, and determine the contribution of each
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Cooray; et al. (22 October 2012). "A measurement of the intrahalo light fraction with near-infrared background anisotropies". Nature.
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A summary on the history of CIB research can be found in the review papers by M.G. Hauser and E. Dwek (2001) and A. Kashlinsky (2005).
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showed, that the peak of the CIB is most likely at longer wavelengths (around 50Ī¼m), and its full power could be ~1āˆ’10% of that of the
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Cs. Kiss; et al. (2001). "Sky confusion noise in the far-infrared: Cirrus, galaxies and the cosmic far-infrared background".
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One of the most important questions about the CIB is the source of its energy. In the early models the CIB was built up from the
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Autocorrelation and power spectrum studies resulted in the CIB fluctuation amplitudes at 1.25, 2.2, 3.5, 12ā€“100Ī¼m based on the
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Zemcov; et al. (5 November 2014). "On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy". Nature.
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Nuclear fusion takes place inside the stars, and we can really see this light redshifted: this is the main source of the
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P. ƁbrahĆ”m; et al. (1997). "Search for brightness fluctuations in the zodiacal light at 25 MU M with ISO".
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by dust was already taken into account, but without considering the re-emission of this absorbed energy in the
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For most of the infrared zodiacal emission fluctuation are negligible in the "cosmic windows", far from the
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H. Dole; et al. (2004). "Far-infrared Source Counts at 70 and 160 Microns in Spitzer Deep Surveys".
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Later, short-wavelength DIRBE measurements at 2.2 and 3.5Ī¼ were combined with the Two Micron Sky Survey (
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emphasized, the CIB is very important in the understanding of some special astronomical objects, like
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M.G. Hauser & E. Dwek (2001). "The Cosmic Infrared Background: Measurements and Implications".
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The first, and still the most extensive, direct CIB measurements were performed by the
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A. Kashlinsky (2005). "Cosmic infrared background and early galaxy evolution".
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gives the most extensive picture about the sources building up the CIB. In a
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Recognizing the cosmological importance of the darkness of the night sky (
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Source counts were important tasks for the recent infrared missions like
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galaxies look similar to those we see today in our cosmic neighborhood.
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have been shown to explain the CIB as well as the other elements of the
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The most important foreground components of the CIB are the following:
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The Spitzer wide area surveys have detected anisotropies in the CIB.
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Another important component of the CIB is the infrared emission by
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Astronomers Discover an Infrared Background Glow in the Universe
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fluctuations are traditionally described by the two dimensional
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These components must be separated for a clear CIB detection.
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is the fluctuation power at the reference spatial frequency
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satellite. After the removal of the precisely determined
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Index

Physical cosmology
Full-sky image derived from nine years' WMAP data
Big Bang
Universe
Age of the universe
Chronology of the universe
Inflation
Nucleosynthesis
Gravitational wave (GWB)
Microwave (CMB)
Neutrino (CNB)
Hubble's law
Redshift
Expansion of the universe
FLRW metric
Friedmann equations
Inhomogeneous cosmology
Future of an expanding universe
Ultimate fate of the universe
Lambda-CDM model
Dark energy
Dark matter
Shape of the universe
Galaxy filament
Galaxy formation
Large quasar group
Large-scale structure
Reionization
Structure formation
Experiments

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