BLAST: A Far-Infrared Measurement of the History of Star Formation Export

@article{citeulike:4303924, abstract = {We use measurements from the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) at wavelengths spanning 250 to 500 microns, combined with data from the Spitzer Infrared telescope and ground-based optical surveys in GOODS-S, to determine the average star formation rate of the galaxies that comprise the cosmic infrared background (CIB) radiation from 70 to 500 microns, at redshifts 0 \< z \< 3. We find that different redshifts are preferentially probed at different wavelengths within this range, with most of the 70 micron background generated at z \< \~{}1 and the 500 micron background generated at z \> \~{}1. The spectral coverage of BLAST and Spitzer in the region of the peak of the background at \~{}200 microns allows us to directly estimate the mean physical properties (temperature, bolometric luminosity and mass) of the dust in the galaxies responsible for contributing more than 80\% of the CIB. By utilizing available redshift information we directly measure the evolution of the far infrared luminosity density and therefore the optically obscured star formation history up to redshift z \~{}3.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Pascale, Enzo and Ade, Peter A. R. and Bock, James J. and Chapin, Edward L. and Devlin, Mark J. and Dye, Simon and Eales, Steve A. and Griffin, Matthew and Gundersen, Joshua O. and Halpern, Mark and Hargrave, Peter C. and Hughes, David H. and Klein, Jeff and Marsden, Gaelen and Mauskopf, Philip and Moncelsi, Lorenzo and Netterfield, Calvin B. and Olmi, Luca and Patanchon, Guillaume and Rex, Marie and Scott, Douglas and Semisch, Christopher and Thomas, Nicholas and Truch, Matthew D. P. and Tucker, Carole and Tucker, Gregory S. and Viero, Marco P. and Wiebe, Donald V.}, citeulike-article-id = {4303924}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1206}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.1206}, day = {8}, eprint = {0904.1206}, keywords = {blast, cib, fir, formation, goods, spitzer, star}, month = {Apr}, posted-at = {2009-04-15 23:04:40}, priority = {2}, title = {BLAST: A Far-Infrared Measurement of the History of Star Formation}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1206}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4303924 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4303924 N2 - We use measurements from the Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope (BLAST) at wavelengths spanning 250 to 500 microns, combined with data from the Spitzer Infrared telescope and ground-based optical surveys in GOODS-S, to determine the average star formation rate of the galaxies that comprise the cosmic infrared background (CIB) radiation from 70 to 500 microns, at redshifts 0 < z < 3. We find that different redshifts are preferentially probed at different wavelengths within this range, with most of the 70 micron background generated at z < ~1 and the 500 micron background generated at z > ~1. The spectral coverage of BLAST and Spitzer in the region of the peak of the background at ~200 microns allows us to directly estimate the mean physical properties (temperature, bolometric luminosity and mass) of the dust in the galaxies responsible for contributing more than 80% of the CIB. By utilizing available redshift information we directly measure the evolution of the far infrared luminosity density and therefore the optically obscured star formation history up to redshift z ~3. TI - BLAST: A Far-Infrared Measurement of the History of Star Formation KW - blast KW - cib KW - fir KW - formation KW - goods KW - spitzer KW - star AU - Pascale, Enzo AU - Ade, Peter AU - Bock, James AU - Chapin, Edward AU - Devlin, Mark AU - Dye, Simon AU - Eales, Steve AU - Griffin, Matthew AU - Gundersen, Joshua AU - Halpern, Mark AU - Hargrave, Peter AU - Hughes, David AU - Klein, Jeff AU - Marsden, Gaelen AU - Mauskopf, Philip AU - Moncelsi, Lorenzo AU - Netterfield, Calvin AU - Olmi, Luca AU - Patanchon, Guillaume AU - Rex, Marie AU - Scott, Douglas AU - Semisch, Christopher AU - Thomas, Nicholas AU - Truch, Matthew AU - Tucker, Carole AU - Tucker, Gregory AU - Viero, Marco AU - Wiebe, Donald PY - 2009/Apr/08/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1206 ER -