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HerMES: The Contribution to the Cosmic Infrared Background from Galaxies Selected by Mass and Redshift

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  • M. P. Viero
  • L. Moncelsi
  • R. F. Quadri
  • V. Arumugam
  • R. J. Assef
  • M. Béthermin
  • J. Bock
  • C. Bridge
  • C. M. Casey
  • A. Conley
  • A. Cooray
  • D. Farrah
  • J. Glenn
  • S. Heinis
  • E. Ibar
  • S. Ikarashi
  • R. J. Ivison
  • K. Kohno
  • G. Marsden
  • S. J. Oliver
  • I. G. Roseboom
  • B. Schulz
  • D. Scott
  • P. Serra
  • M. Vaccari
  • J. D. Vieira
  • L. Wang
  • G. W. Wilson
  • M. S. Yun
  • M. Zemcov
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<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1/12/2013
<mark>Journal</mark>The Astrophysical Journal
Issue number1
Volume779
Pages (from-to)32
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We quantify the fraction of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) that originates from galaxies identified in the UV/optical/near-infrared by stacking 81,250 (~35.7 arcmin-2) K-selected sources (K AB <24.0) split according to their rest-frame U - V versus V - J colors into 72,216 star-forming and 9034 quiescent galaxies, on maps from Spitzer/MIPS (24 μm), Herschel/PACS (100, 160 μm), Herschel/SPIRE (250, 350, 500 μm), and AzTEC (1100 μm). The fraction of the CIB resolved by our catalog is (69% ± 15%) at 24 μm, (78% ± 17%) at 70 μm, (58% ± 13%) at 100 μm, (78% ± 18%) at 160 μm, (80% ± 17%) at 250 μm, (69% ± 14%) at 350 μm, (65% ± 12%) at 500 μm, and (45% ± 8%) at 1100 μm. Of that total, about 95% originates from star-forming galaxies, while the remaining 5% is from apparently quiescent galaxies. The CIB at λ ~ 200 μm the bulk originates from 1 350 μm. The contribution from galaxies in the log(M/M ⊙) = 9.0-9.5 (lowest) and log(M/M ⊙) = 11.0-12.0 (highest) stellar-mass bins contribute the least—both of order 5%—although the highest stellar-mass bin is a significant contributor to the luminosity density at z >~ 2. The luminosities of the galaxies responsible for the CIB shifts from combinations of "normal" and luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) at λ ~ 500 μm. Stacking analyses were performed using SIMSTACK, a novel algorithm designed to account for possible biases in the stacked flux density due to clustering. It is made available to the public at www.astro.caltech.edu/~viero/viero_homepage/toolbox.html. Herschel is an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal Investigator consortia and with important participation from NASA.