Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-11-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 15 figures. Invited talk at IAU Symposium 204, "The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implicati
Scientific paper
We discuss the ultraviolet to near-IR galaxy counts from the deepest imaging surveys, including the northern and southern Hubble Deep Fields. The logarithmic slope of the galaxy number-magnitude relation is flatter than 0.4 in all seven UBVIJHK optical bandpasses at faint magnitudes, i.e. the light from resolved galaxies has converged from the UV to the near-IR. Most of the galaxy contribution to the extragalactic background light (EBL) comes from relatively bright, low-redshift objects (50% at V_AB<21 and 90% at V_AB<25.5). We find a lower limit to the surface brightness of the optical EBL of about 15 nW/m^2/sterad, comparable to the intensity of the far-IR background from COBE data. Diffuse light, lost because of surface brightness selection effects, may add substantially to the EBL.
Madau Piero
Pozzetti Lucia
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