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近红外线波动能从已知的星系群中产生吗?

Can the Near-IR Fluctuations Arise from Known Galaxy Populations?

Kari Helgason, Massimo Ricotti, Alexander Kashlinsky

摘要:

宇宙红外线背景的空间波动现在已经被测量到亚度尺度,显示出来自未解析源的强烈聚类信号。我们试图通过考虑z<6的微弱星系群作为该信号的潜在来源来解释这些测量结果,使用了233个测量的UV,光学和NIR光度函数(LF),这些光度函数来自各种各样的调查,涵盖了广泛的红移。我们填充的光锥和计算的总发射红移到近红外波段的观察者框架和恢复观察到的光学和近红外星系计数到一个很好的精度。使用晕模型的星系与一个潜在的LCDM密度场的集群,我们发现,从已知的星系人口的波动是无法解释的大规模CIB集群信号所看到的HST/NICMOS,斯皮策/IRAC和AKARI/IRC,并继续发散到更大的角尺度。我们纯粹的经验重建表明,已知的星系人口是不负责的大部分的波动信号中看到的测量,并建议一个未知的人口非常微弱和高度聚集的来源占主导地位的信号。

英文摘要:

Spatial Fluctuations in the Cosmic Infrared Background have now been measured out to sub-degree scales showing a strong clustering signal from unresolved sources. We attempt to explain these measurement by considering faint galaxy populations at z<6 as the underlying sources for this signal using 233 measured UV, optical and NIR luminosity functions (LF) from a variety of surveys covering a wide range of redshifts. We populate the lightcone and calculate the total emission redshifted into the near-IR bands in the observer frame and recover the observed optical and near-IR galaxy counts to a good accuracy. Using a halo model for the clustering of galaxies with an underlying LCDM density field, we find that fluctuations from known galaxy populations are unable to account for the large scale CIB clustering signal seen by HST/NICMOS, Spitzer/IRAC and AKARI/IRC and continue to diverge out to larger angular scales. Our purely empirical reconstruction shows that known galaxy populations are not responsible for the bulk of the fluctuation signal seen in the measurements and suggests an unknown population of very faint and highly clustered sources dominating the signal.

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