The Nature of the Sources of the Mid-IR Background Light

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Oct 2004

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MULTIWAVELENGTH AGN SURVEYS. Proceedings of the Guillermo Haro Conference 2003. Held 8-12 December 2003 in Cozumel, Mexico. Edit

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Deep mid-IR galaxy surveys performed with ISOCAM have revealed a population of dust-obscured sources, for which the observed source density is in large excess with respect to the Euclidean predictions, and which suffices to account for about 60% of the diffuse infrared background light (IBL) at 15 μm. Synthesis models for the hard X-ray background, which require a large population of heavily obscured AGNs, predict that a large fraction of the accretion power in the Universe is absorbed. The absorbed energy is expected to be re-emitted in the IR-mm waveband. Key current questions are: What is the nature of the sources in the IR population, and what fraction of the deep X-ray and mid-IR populations are related.

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