Spitzer 70-micron Source Counts in GOODS-North

Details Spitzer 70-micron Source Counts in GOODS-North Spitzer 70-micron Source Counts in GOODS-North

2006-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606676v1

Astrophys.J.647:L9-L12,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages including 2 figures and 1 table. Accepted ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/507149

We present ultra-deep Spitzer 70-micron observations of GOODS-North. For the first time, the turn-over in the 70-micron Euclidean-normalized differential source counts is observed. We derive source counts down to a flux density of 1.2mJy. From the measured source counts and fluctuation analysis, we estimate a power-law approximation of the faint 70-micron source counts of dN/dS proportional to S^{-1.6}, consistent with that observed for the faint 24-micron sources. An extrapolation of the 70-micron source counts to zero flux density implies a total extragalactic background light (EBL) of 7.4+/-1.9 nW m^{-2} sr^{-1}. The source counts above 1.2mJy account for about 60% of the estimated EBL. From fluctuation analysis, we derive a photometric confusion level of sigma_c = 0.30+/-0.15 mJy (q=5) for the Spitzer 70-micron band.

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