Constraints on CMBR flux due to high-z dust emission
Abstract
Gjergo & Kroupa (2025) have proposed a new foreground CMBR component produced by dust associated with the progenitor clouds at that led to the formation of massive early-type galaxies, calculating that a minimum of 1.4% and a maximum of 100% of the whole CMBR radiation would be produced by this mechanism. Here, I check how much dust emission is compatible with the spectrum of the CMBR monopole flux measurements within the corresponding errors. COBE-FIRAS monopole is fitted to different models with different dust emissivity spectral indexes () and dispersion of redshifts of the progenitor clouds (). Within the realistic values of , , the contamination of CMBR flux by high dust should be % (95% CL).
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@article{arxiv.2602.20916,
title = {Constraints on CMBR flux due to high-z dust emission},
author = {Martin Lopez-Corredoira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20916},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
3 pages, accepted for publication in Research Notes of the AAS