Dust Absorption and the Cosmic UV Flux Density

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2001-09-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0109013v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 3 encapsulated postscript figures, LateX, accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/323787

We study the evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity density as a function of redshift in the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N). We estimate the amount of energy absorbed by dust and hidden from optical observations by analyzing the HDF-N photometric data with the spectral energy distribution fitting method. According to our results, at redshifts 1 < z < 4.5, the global energy observed in the UV rest-frame at lambda=1500 A corresponds to only 7-11% of the stellar energy output, the rest of it being absorbed by dust and re-emitted in the far-IR. Our estimates of the comoving star formation rate density in the universe from the extinction-corrected UV emission are consistent with the recent results obtained with Submillimeter Common-User Bolometer Array (SCUBA) at faint sub-millimeter flux levels.

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