Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-11-09
New Astron.Rev.50:208-214,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Invited review to appear in proceedings of Irvine workshop "First light and reionization", eds. E. Barton & A. Cooray. New Ast
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.newar.2005.11.017
Cosmic infrared background (CIB) contains information about galaxy luminosities over the entire history of the Universe and can be a powerful diagnostic of the early populations otherwise inaccessible to telescopic studies. Its measurements are very difficult because of the strong IR foregrounds from the Solar system and the Galaxy. Nevertheless, substantial recent progress in measuring the CIB and its structure has been made. The measurements now allow to set significant constraints on early galaxy evolution and, perhaps, even detect the elusive Population III era. We discuss briefly the theory behind the CIB, review the latest measurements of the CIB and its structure, and discuss their implications for detecting and/or constraining the first stars and their epochs.
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