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

scholarly journals Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER): A probe of Extragalactic Background Light from reionization

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S284) ◽  
pp. 482-488
Author(s):  
Asantha Cooray ◽  
Jamie Bock ◽  
Mitsunobu Kawada ◽  
Brian Keating ◽  
Andrew Lange ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Narrow Band ◽  
Narrow Band Imaging ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
Imaging Spectrometer ◽  
Zodiacal Cloud ◽  
Spectroscopy Experiment ◽  
Infrared Background ◽  
Cosmic Infrared Background ◽  
Imaging And Spectroscopy

AbstractThe Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (CIBER) is a rocket-borne absolute photometry imaging and spectroscopy experiment optimized to detect signatures of first-light galaxies present during reionization in the unresolved IR background. CIBER-I consists of a wide-field two-color camera for fluctuation measurements, a low-resolution absolute spectrometer for absolute EBL measurements, and a narrow-band imaging spectrometer to measure and correct scattered emission from the foreground zodiacal cloud. CIBER-I was successfully flown in February 2009 and July 2010 and four more flights are planned by 2014, including an upgrade (CIBER-II). We propose, after several additional flights of CIBER-I, an improved CIBER-II camera consisting of a wide-field 30 cm imager operating in 4 bands between 0.5 and 2.1 microns. It is designed for a high significance detection of unresolved IR background fluctuations at the minimum level necessary for reionization. With a FOV 50 to 2000 times larger than existing IR instruments on satellites, CIBER-II will carry out the definitive study to establish the surface density of sources responsible for reionization.

scholarly journals The Role of Dust in Producing the Cosmic Infrared Background

2001 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 389-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eli Dwek
Keyword(s):  
Conclusive Evidence ◽  
Spectral Shape ◽  
Significant Fraction ◽  
Extragalactic Background Light ◽  
General Role ◽  
Infrared Background ◽  
Infrared Intensity ◽  
Cosmic Infrared Background ◽  
The Many

The extragalactic background light (EBL), exclusive of the cosmic microwave background, consists of the cumulative radiative output from all energy sources in the universe since the epoch of recombination. Most of this energy is released at ultraviolet and optical wavelengths. However, observations show that a significant fraction of the EBL falls in the 10 to 1000 μm wavelength regime. This provides conclusive evidence that we live in a dusty universe, since only dust can efficiently absorbs a significant fraction of the background energy and reemit it at infrared wavelengths. The general role of dust in forming the cosmic infrared background (CIB) is therefore obvious. However, its role in determining the exact spectral shape of the CIB is quite complex. The CIB spectrum depends on the microscopic physical properties of the dust, its composition, abundance, and spatial distribution relative to the emitting sources, and its response to evolutionary processes that can modify all the factors listed above. This paper will present a brief summary of the many ways dust affects the intensity and spectral shape of the cosmic infrared background. In an Appendix we present new limits on the mid-infrared intensity of the CIB using TeV γ-ray observations of Mrk 501.

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 Relaxation leptogenesis, isocurvature perturbations, and the cosmic infrared background

2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiro Kawasaki ◽  
Alexander Kusenko ◽  
Lauren Pearce ◽  
Louis Yang
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Background ◽  
Cosmic Infrared Background ◽  
Isocurvature Perturbations

scholarly journals Anisotropies of the infrared background and primordial galaxies

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (14) ◽  
pp. 266-266
Author(s):  
Asantha R. Cooray
Keyword(s):  
Galaxy Formation ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Imaging Data ◽  
Near Ir ◽  
Infrared Background ◽  
Cosmic Infrared Background ◽  
Galactic Background

AbstractWe discuss anisotropies in the near-IR background between 1 to a few microns. This background is expected to contain a signature of primordial galaxies. We have measured fluctuations of resolved galaxies with Spitzer imaging data and we are developing a rocket-borne instrument (the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment, or CIBER) to search for signatures of primordial galaxy formation in the cosmic near-infrared extra-galactic background.

scholarly journals Measuring Light from the Epoch of Reionization with CIBER, the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Zemcov ◽  
Toshiaki Arai ◽  
John Battle ◽  
James Bock ◽  
Asantha Cooray ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infrared Background ◽  
Cosmic Infrared Background
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