Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-02-26
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/306648
Accurate synthetic models of stellar populations are constructed and used in evolutionary models of stellar populations in forming galaxies. Following their formation, the late type galaxies are assumed to follow the Schmidt law for star formation, while early type galaxies are normalized to the present-day fundamental plane relations assumed to mimic the metallicity variations along their luminosity sequence. We then compute predictions of these models for the observational data at early epochs for various cosmological parameters $\Omega, \Omega_\Lambda$ and $H_0$. We find good match to the metallicity data from the damped $L_\alpha$ systems and the evolution of the luminosity density out to $z\simeq 1$. Likewise, our models provide good fits for low values of $\Omega$ to the deep number counts of galaxies in all bands where data is available; this is done without assuming existence of extra populations of galaxies at high $z$. Our models also match the data on the redshift distribution of galaxy counts in $B$ and $K$ bands. We compute the predicted mean levels and angular distribution of the cosmic infrared background produced from the early evolution of galaxies. The predicted fluxes and fluctuations are still below the current observational limits, but not by a large factor. Finally, we find that the recent detection of the diffuse extragalactic light in the visible bands requires for our models high redshift of galaxy formation, $z_f \geq$(3-4); otherwise the produced flux of the extragalactic light at optical bands exceeds the current observational limits.
Jimenez Raul
Kashlinsky Alexander
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