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The 24 Micron Source Counts in Deep Spitzer Surveys | | Casey Papovich
; H. Dole
; E. Egami
; E. Le Floc’h
; P. G. Perez-Gonzalez
; A. Alonso-Herrero
; L. Bai
; C. A. Beichman
; M. Blaylock
; C. W. Engelbracht
; K. D. Gordon
; D. C. Hines
; K. A. Misselt
; J. E. Morrison
; J. Mould
; J. Muzerolle
; G. Neugebauer
; P. L. Richards
; G. H. Rieke
; M. J. Rieke
; J. R. Rigby
; K. Y. L. Su
; E. T. Young
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1 Jun 2004 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 1 and 3), L. Bai , C. A. Beichman , M. Blaylock , C. W. Engelbracht , K. D. Gordon , D. C. Hines (1 and 5), K. A. Misselt , J. E. Morrison , J. Mould , J. Muzerolle , G. Neugebauer , P. L. Richards , G. H. Rieke , M. J. Rieke , J. R. Rigby , K. Y. L. | | Abstract: | Galaxy source counts in the infrared provide strong constraints on the evolution of the bolometric energy output from distant galaxy populations. We present the results from deep 24 micron imaging from Spitzer surveys, which include approximately 50,000 sources to an 80% completeness of 60 uJy. The 24 micron counts rapidly rise at near-Euclidean rates down to 5 mJy, increase with a super-Euclidean rate between 0.4 - 4 mJy, and converge below 0.3 mJy. The 24 micron counts exceed expectations from non-evolving models by a factor >10 at 0.1 mJy. The peak in the differential number counts corresponds to a population of faint sources that is not expected from predictions based on 15 micron counts from ISO. We argue that this implies the existence of a previously undetected population of infrared-luminous galaxies at z ~ 1-3. Integrating the counts to 60 uJy, we derive a lower limit on the 24 micron background intensity of 1.9 +/- 0.6 nW m-2 sr-1 of which the majority (~ 60%) stems from sources fainter than 0.4 mJy. Extrapolating to fainter flux densities, sources below 60 uJy contribute 0.8 {+0.9/-0.4} nW m-2 sr-1 to the background, which provides an estimate of the total 24 micron background of 2.7 {+1.1/-0.7} nW m-2 sr-1. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0406035 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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