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Detection of small scale fluctuations in the near-IR cosmic infrared background from long exposure 2MASS fields | | A. Kashlinsky
; S. Odenwald
; J. Mather
; M. F. Skrutskie
; R. M. Cutri
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2 Oct 2002 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 579 (2002) L53-L57 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | SSAI/GSFC), S. Odenwald (RSTX/GSFC), J. Mather (NASA/GSFC), M. F. Skrutskie (U of Va) and R. M. Cutri (IPAC | | Abstract: | We report first results for the cosmic infrared background (CIB) fluctuations at 1.25, 1.65 and 2.17 micron obtained from long exposures constructed from 2MASS standard star fields. We have co-added and analyzed scans from one such field with a total exposure time > 1 hour, and removed sources and other artifacts. The stars and galaxies were clipped out to K_s~19^m leaving only high-z galaxies (or possibly local low-surface-brightness systems). The residual component of the diffuse emission on scales from a few arc-sec to a few arc-min has a power-law slope consistent with emission produced by clustered galaxies. The noise (and residual artifacts) contribution to the signal is small and the colors of the signal are very different from Galactic stars or air-glow. We therefore identify the signal as CIB fluctuations from the faint unresolved galaxies. We show that the present-day galaxies with no evolution would produce a significant deficit in the observed CIB fluctuations. Thus the dominant contribution to the observed signal must come from high z and may indicate high rates of star formation at those epochs. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0210083 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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