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The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: I. Limits and Detections | | M.G. Hauser
; R.G. Arendt
; T. Kelsall
; E. Dwek
; N. Odegard
; J.L. Weiland
; H.T. Freudenreich
; W.T. Reach
; R.F. Silverberg
; S.H. Moseley
; Y.C. Pei
; P. Lubin
; J.C. Mather
; R.A. Shafer
; G.F. Smoot
; R. Weiss
; D.T. Wilkinson
; E.L. Wright
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11 Jun 1998 | | Journal: | Astrophys.J. 508 (1998) 25 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Abstract: | The DIRBE on the COBE spacecraft was designed primarily to conduct systematic search for an isotropic CIB in ten photometric bands from 1.25 to 240 microns. The results of that search are presented here. Conservative limits on the CIB are obtained from the minimum observed brightness in all-sky maps at each wavelength, with the faintest limits in the DIRBE spectral range being at 3.5 microns (
u I_
u < 64 nW/m^2/sr, 95% CL) and at 240 microns (
u I_
u < 28 nW/m^2/sr, 95% CL). The bright foregrounds from interplanetary dust scattering and emission, stars, and interstellar dust emission are the principal impediments to the DIRBE measurements of the CIB. These foregrounds have been modeled and removed from the sky maps. Assessment of the random and systematic uncertainties in the residuals and tests for isotropy show that only the 140 and 240 microns data provide candidate detections of the CIB. The residuals and their uncertainties provide CIB upper limits more restrictive than the dark sky limits at wavelengths from 1.25 to 100 microns. No plausible solar system or Galactic source of the observed 140 and 240 microns residuals can be identified, leading to the conclusion that the CIB has been detected at levels of
u I_
u = 25+-7 and 14+-3 nW/m^2/sr at 140 and 240 microns respectively. The integrated energy from 140 to 240 microns, 10.3 nW/m^2/sr, is about twice the integrated optical light from the galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field, suggesting that star formation might have been heavily enshrouded by dust at high redshift. The detections and upper limits reported here provide new constraints on models of the history of energy-releasing processes and dust production since the decoupling of the cosmic microwave background from matter. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9806167 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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