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Constraints on CMBR flux due to high-z dust emission

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2026-02-25 v1 Astrophysics of Galaxies

Abstract

Gjergo & Kroupa (2025) have proposed a new foreground CMBR component produced by dust associated with the progenitor clouds at z=1520z=15-20 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 (β\beta ) and dispersion of redshifts of the progenitor clouds (σd\sigma _d). Within the realistic values of β0.5\beta \ge 0.5, σd0.8\sigma _d\ge 0.8, the contamination of CMBR flux by high zz dust should be <1.3<1.3% (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