Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-10-29
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 295 (1998) 877-898
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
21 pages, Latex, 20 postscript figures, accepted for publication in Month. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01308.x
This paper proposes a new semi-analytic modelling of galaxy properties in the IR/submm wavelength range, which is explicitly set in a cosmological framework. This type of approach has had some success in reproducing the optical properties of galaxies. We hereafter propose a simple extension to the IR/submm range. We estimate the IR/submm luminosities of ``luminous UV/IR galaxies'', and we explore how much star formation could be hidden in heavily--extinguished, ``ultraluminous IR galaxies'' by designing a family of evolutionary scenarios which are consistent with the current status of the ``cosmic constraints'', as well as with the IRAS luminosity function and faint counts, but with different high-z IR luminosity densities. However, these scenarios generate a Cosmic Infrared Background whose spectrum falls within the range of the isotropic IR component detected by Puget et al. (1996) and revisited by Guiderdoni et al. (1997). We give predictions for the faint galaxy counts and redshift distributions at IR and submm wavelengths. The submm range is very sensitive to the details of the evolutionary scenarios. As a result, the on-going and forthcoming observations with ISO and SCUBA (and later with SIRTF, SOFIA, FIRST and PLANCK) will put strong constraints on the evolution of galaxies at z=1 and beyond.
Bouchet Francois R.
Guiderdoni Bruno
Hivon Eric
Maffei Bruno
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