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The Extragalactic Background Included in IRAS Point Source Samples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

E. J. A. Meurs ,
R. T. Harmon  and
H.-M Adorf
E. J. A. Meurs
Affiliation:
ESO Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 D–8046 Garching bei München FRG
R. T. Harmon
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept. 105–24 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
H.-M Adorf
Affiliation:
ST-ECF/ESO Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2 D–8046 Garching bei München FRG

Abstract

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The sky survey performed by the IRAS satellite provides a very homogeneous and almost complete view of the sky at infrared wavelengths. Suitable methods from multivariate statistics and decision theory are employed to extract the extragalactic background included in the IRAS Point Source Catalog. The resulting map comprehensively represents the distribution of extragalactic objects on the sky. The various selections may be used to assess large-scale structure in the distribution of galaxies and the total infrared background due to galaxies, to follow such structures closer to the Galactic Plane than is possible with optical data and to address cosmological questions (e.g., Harmon, Lahav, and Mauers 1987). These investigations are to be extended to the more sensitive Co-Added Catalog.

Type
IV. Extragalactic Background Radiation and Cosmology
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 139: The Galactic and Extragalactic Background Radiation , 1990 , pp. 383 - 384
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1990 

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