IR Background Anisotropies in Spitzer GOODS images and constraints on first galaxies

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2006-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612609v1

Astrophys.J.659:L91-L94,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures; for additional information see astro-ph/0609451 ; data products are available at http://www.cooray.org/spi

Scientific paper

10.1086/517969

We describe the angular power spectrum of unresolved 3.6 micron IR light in Spitzer GOODS fields. The amplitude of the anisotropy spectrum decreases with decreasing flux threshold to which resolved sources are removed from images. When all pixels brighter than a Vega magnitude of 24.6 are removed, the amplitude of the power spectrum at arcminute angular scales can be described with an extra component of z>8 sources with a IRB contribution around 0.4 nW m^-2 sr-1. The shape of the power spectrum, however, is more consistent with that expected for unresolved, faint galaxies at lower redshifts with Vega magnitudes fainter than 23 with a total 3.6 micron intensity between 0.1 to 0.8 nW m^-2 sr^-1. We confirm this assumption by showing that large-scale power decreases rapidly when the unresolved clustering spectrum is measured from a processed HDF-N IRAC image where locations of faint ACS sources with no IR counterparts were also masked. Based on resolved counts and unresolved fluctuations, we find that, at most, about 7.0 nW m^-2 sr^-1 can be ascribed to galaxies.

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