On the nature of the sources of the cosmic infrared background

Details On the nature of the sources of the cosmic infrared background On the nature of the sources of the cosmic infrared background

2006-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612447v1

Astrophys.J.654:L1-L4,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Ap.J.Letters, in press

Scientific paper

10.1086/510484

We discuss interpretation of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) anisotropies detected by us recently in the Spitzer IRAC based measurements. The fluctuations are approximately isotropic on the sky consistent with their cosmological origin. They remain after removal of fairly faint intervening sources and must arise from a population which has a strong CIB clustering component with only a small shot-noise level. We discuss the constraints the data place on the luminosities, epochs and mass-to-light ratios of the indvidual sources producing them. Assuming the concordance LambdaCDM cosmology the measurements imply that the luminous sources producing them lie at cosmic times < 1 Gyr and were individually much brighter per unit mass than the present stellar populations.

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