An Empirical Decomposition of Near-IR Emission into Galactic and Extragalactic Components

Details An Empirical Decomposition of Near-IR Emission into Galactic and Extragalactic Components An Empirical Decomposition of Near-IR Emission into Galactic and Extragalactic Components

2002-11-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211184v1

Astrophys.J. 585 (2003) 305-318

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages. 10 JPEG and PNG figures. Uses emulateapj5.sty. To appear in 2003, ApJ, 585, 000 (March 1, 2003)

Scientific paper

10.1086/345983

We decompose the COBE/DIRBE observations of the near-IR sky brightness (minus zodiacal light) into Galactic stellar and interstellar medium (ISM) components and an extragalactic background. This empirical procedure allows us to estimate the 4.9 micron cosmic infrared background (CIB) as a function of the CIB intensity at shorter wavelengths. A weak indication of a rising CIB intensity at wavelengths > 3.5 micron hints at interesting astrophysics in the CIB spectrum, or warns that the foreground zodiacal emission may be incompletely subtracted. Subtraction of only the stellar component from the zodiacal-light-subtracted all-sky map reveals the clearest 3.5 micron ISM emission map, which is found to be tightly correlated with the ISM emission at far-IR wavelengths.

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