scholarly journals ALMA twenty-six arcmin2 survey of GOODS-S at one millimeter (ASAGAO)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S352) ◽  
pp. 239-240
Author(s):  
B. Hatsukade ◽  
K. Kohno ◽  
Y. Yamaguchi ◽  
H. Umehata ◽  
Y. Ao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Archival Data ◽  
Beam Size ◽  
Density Evolution ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Blank Field ◽  
Background Light ◽  
Luminosity Functions ◽  
Number Counts ◽  
Luminosity Evolution

AbstractThe ALMA twenty-six arcmin2 survey of GOODS-S at one millimeter (ASAGAO) is a deep (1σ ∼ 61μJy/beam) and wide area (26 arcmin2) survey on a contiguous field at 1.2 mm. By combining with archival data, we obtained a deeper map in the same region (1σ ∼ 30μJy/beam−1, synthesized beam size 0.59″ × 0.53″), providing the largest sample of sources (25 sources at 5σ, 45 sources at 4.5σ) among ALMA blank-field surveys. The median redshift of the 4.5σ sources is 2.4. The number counts shows that 52% of the extragalactic background light at 1.2 mm is resolved into discrete sources. We create IR luminosity functions (LFs) at z = 1–3, and constrain the faintest luminosity of the LF at 2 < z < 3. The LFs are consistent with previous results based on other ALMA and SCUBA-2 observations, which suggests a positive luminosity evolution and negative density evolution.

scholarly journals An empirical approach to the extragalactic background light from AEGIS galaxy SED-type fractions

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S284) ◽  
pp. 442-445
Author(s):  
Alberto Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Evolution ◽  
Direct Measurement ◽  
Spectral Energy ◽  
Intensity Level ◽  
Energy Distributions ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Background Light ◽  
Luminosity Functions ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Γ Ray

AbstractThe extragalactic background light (EBL) is of fundamental importance both for understanding the entire process of galaxy evolution and for γ-ray astronomy. However, the overall spectrum of the EBL between 0.1 and 1000 μm has never been determined directly, neither from observed luminosity functions (LFs), over a wide redshift range, nor from any multiwavelength observation of galaxy spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The evolving overall spectrum of the EBL is derived here utilizing a novel method based on observations only. It is emphasized that the local EBL seems already well constrained from the UV up to the mid-IR. Different independent methodologies such as direct measurement, galaxy counts, γ-ray attenuation and realistic EBL modelings point towards the same EBL intensity level. Therefore, a relevant contribution from Pop III stars to the local EBL seems unlikely.

scholarly journals New Wide Field J- and K-band Galaxy Counts and the Extragalactic Background

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 215-216
Author(s):  
P. Väisänen ◽  
E. V. Tollestrup ◽  
S. P. Willner ◽  
Martin Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Model ◽  
Luminosity Function ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Source Detection ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Background Light ◽  
Faint Galaxy ◽  
Number Counts ◽  
Field Galaxy ◽  
Best Fit

We present new medium-deep wide field galaxy counts at J- and K-bands, performed in the ELAIS fields. The source detection limits are at J = 19.5 and K = 18.0 magnitudes. The sky coverage is 1 degree2, making our survey the largest to date at these wavelengths and magnitudes. Counts in this brightness range are critical for normalization of models when explaining the deepest galaxy counts. In our survey fields we find evidence for a higher than expected local galaxy density. If normalized to our counts, galaxy models do not need strong brightness evolution or exotic populations to be explained even at the faintest levels. We measure clearly sub-Euclidean slopes of d log N(m)/dm ~ 0.45 to 0.50 at 13 < K < 17.5 and 14.5 < J < 19. Normal, passively evolving stellar populations along with a high normalization of the local luminosity function and an open cosmological model best fit both the slope and amplitude of our number counts. We report a preliminary value, ~ 30 n Wm−2sr−1, for the K-band extragalactic background light using zodi-subtracted DIRBE-data and our observed star counts. The value is consistent with, e.g., Matsumoto (these Proceedings 2001) and Gorjian, V., Wright, E. L., & Chary, R. R. 2000, ApJ, 536, 550, but is considerably higher than extrapolations from faint galaxy counts.

scholarly journals Background Light from Population III Stars

1987 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 414-414
Author(s):  
Jonathan C. McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Background Radiation ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Rest Mass ◽  
Critical Density ◽  
Density Parameter ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Background Light ◽  
Far Ultraviolet ◽  
The Universe

It has been proposed (e.g. Carr, Bond and Arnett 1984) that the first generation of stars may have been Very Massive Objects (VMOs, of mass above 200 M⊙) which existed at large redshifts and left a large fraction of the mass of the universe in black hole remnants which now provide the dynamical ‘dark matter’. The radiation from these stars would be present today as extragalactic background light. For stars with density parameter Ω* which convert a fraction ϵ of their rest-mass to radiation at a redshift of z, the energy density of background radiation in units of the critical density is ΩR = εΩ* / (1+z). The VMOs would be far-ultraviolet sources with effective temperatures of 105 K. If the radiation is not absorbed, the constraints provided by measurements of background radiation imply (for H =50 km/s/Mpc) that the stars cannot close the universe unless they formed at a redshift of 40 or more. To provide the dark matter (of one-tenth closure density) the optical limits imply that they must have existed at redshifts above 25.

scholarly journals The number counts, luminosity functions, and evolution
of microwave-selected (WMAP) blazars and radio galaxies

2009 ◽  
Vol 508 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Giommi ◽  
S. Colafrancesco ◽  
P. Padovani ◽  
D. Gasparrini ◽  
E. Cavazzuti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radio Galaxies ◽  
Luminosity Functions ◽  
Number Counts

scholarly journals Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): A Probe of Extragalactic Background Light from Reionization

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asantha Cooray ◽  
Jamie Bock ◽  
Mitsunobu Kawada ◽  
Brian Keating ◽  
Dae-Hee Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Background Light ◽  
Infrared Background ◽  
Cosmic Infrared Background

Chapter 3 Extra-galactic Gamma-Ray Sources

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang-Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Active Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Lower Energy ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Galactic Nuclei ◽  
Starburst Galaxies ◽  
Gamma Ray Bursts ◽  
Cherenkov Detector ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Background Light ◽  
Water Cherenkov Detector

Abstract Extra-galactic gamma-ray sources, such as gamma-ray bursts, active galactic nuclei, starburst galaxies, are interesting and important targets for LHAASO observations. In this chapter, the prospects of detecting these sources with LHAASO and their physical implications are studied. The upgrade plan for the Water Cherenkov Detector Array (WCDA), which aims to enhance the detectability of relatively lower energy photons, is also presented. In addition, a study on constraining the extragalactic background light with LHAASO observation of blazars is presented.

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