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Detection of the extra-Galactic background fluctuations at 170 $\mu$m

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We have used the Marano1 field observations with ISOPHOT at 170 μ\mum to search for the Cosmic Far-InfraRed Background fluctuations. This field is part of the FIRBACK project (Puget et al., 1999a). For the first time, fluctuations due to unresolved extra-Galactic sources are isolated. The emission of such sources clearly dominates, at arcminute scales, the background fluctuations in the lowest Galactic emission regions. The study presented here is based on a power spectrum analysis which allow to statistically separate each of the background components. With this analysis, we clearly show that we detect the CFIRB fluctuations.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9910255,
  title  = {Detection of the extra-Galactic background fluctuations at 170 $\mu$m},
  author = {G. Lagache and J. L. Puget},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9910255},
  year   = {2007}
}

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