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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 707, Issue 2, Pages 1729-1739Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/1729
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cosmology: observations; diffuse radiation; galaxies: evolution; galaxies: starburst; submillimeter
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Funding
- NASA [NAG5-12785, NAG5-13301, NNGO-6GI11G]
- NSF Office of Polar Programs
- Canadian Space Agency
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- STFC [ST/G002711/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST) has made 1 deg(2), deep, confusion-limited maps at three different bands, centered on the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey South Field. By calculating the covariance of these maps with catalogs of 24 mu m sources from the Far-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey, we have determined that the total submillimeter intensities are 8.60 +/- 0.59, 4.93 +/- 0.34, and 2.27 +/- 0.20 nW m(-2) sr(-1) at 250, 350, and 500 mu m, respectively. These numbers are more precise than previous estimates of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) and are consistent with 24 mu m-selected galaxies generating the full intensity of the CIB. We find that the fraction of the CIB that originates from sources at z >= 1.2 increases with wavelength, with 60% from high-redshift sources at 500 mu m. At all BLAST wavelengths, the relative intensity of high-z sources is higher for 24 mu m-faint sources than that for 24 mu m-bright sources. Galaxies identified as active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by their Infrared Array Camera colors are 1.6-2.6 times brighter than the average population at 250-500 mu m, consistent with what is found for X-ray-selected AGNs. BzK-selected galaxies are found to be moderately brighter than typical 24 mu m-selected galaxies in the BLAST bands. These data provide high-precision constraints for models of the evolution of the number density and intensity of star-forming galaxies at high redshift.
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