Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-12-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
40 pages LaTeX2e, 11 embedded figures, to appear in PASP
Scientific paper
10.1086/316336
Infrared Imaging Surveyor (IRIS) is a satellite which will be launched in the beginning of 2003. One of the main purposes of the IRIS mission is an all-sky survey at far-infrared (FIR) with a flux limit much deeper than that of IRAS. In order to examine the performance of the survey, we estimated the FIR galaxy counts in four (50, 70, 120, and 150 $\mu$m) bands based on some models. We adopted a multicomponent model which consists of cirrus and starburst components for galaxy spectra, and the nearby FIR luminosity function derived from that of IRAS galaxies. We derived the number counts, redshift distributions, and infrared diffuse background radiation spectra for i) no evolution, ii) pure luminosity evolution, iii) pure density evolution with $q_0 = 0.1$ and 0.5. We found that a large number of galaxies ($\sim {\rm a few} \times 10^6$ in the whole sky) will be detected in this survey. With the aid of a vast number of detection, we will detect the effect of galaxy evolution, and evaluate the amplitude of evolution at least in the nearby universe in the IRIS survey, though it will be still difficult to constrain which type of evolution takes place from the number count alone. We also studied the estimation of redshifts of detected galaxies by their infrared colors alone. Although significant contamination takes place among nearby faint galaxies and high-$z$ ones, we found that rough estimation of galaxy redshift can be practicable by jointly using present and future optical surveys.
Hattori Takashi G.
Hirashita Hiroyuki
Ishii Takako T.
Ohta Kouji
Shibai Hiroshi
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