The European Large Area ISO Survey III: 90micron extragalactic source counts
Abstract
We present results and source counts at 90micron extracted from the Preliminary Analysis of the European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS). The survey covered about 11.6 square degrees of the sky in four main areas and was carried out with the PHOT instrument onboard the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO). The survey is at least an order of magnitude deeper than the IRAS 100micron survey and is expected to provide constraints on the formation and evolution of galaxies. The majority of the detected sources are associated with galaxies on optical images. In some cases the optical associations are interacting pairs or small groups of galaxies suggesting the sample may include a significant fraction of luminous infrared galaxies. The source counts extracted from a reliable subset of the detected sources are in agreement with strongly evolving models of the starburst galaxy population.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0008065,
title = {The European Large Area ISO Survey III: 90micron extragalactic source counts},
author = {A. Efstathiou and S. Oliver and M. Rowan-Robinson and C. Surace and T. Sumner and P. Heraudeau and M. J. D. Linden-Vornle and D. Rigopoulou and S. Serjeant and R. G. Mann and C. J. Cesarsky and L. Danese and A. Franceschini and R. Genzel and A. Lawrence and D. Lemke and R. G. McMahon and G. Miley and J-L. Puget and B. Rocca-Volmerange},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0008065},
year = {2019}
}
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13 pages, accepted by MNRAS. For more details on the ELAIS project see http://athena.ph.ic.ac.uk/