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Deep Spitzer 24mic COSMOS imaging -- I. The evolution of luminous dusty galaxies - Confronting the models

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 نشر من قبل Emeric Le Floc'h
 تاريخ النشر 2009
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We present the first results obtained from the identification of ~30,000 sources in the 24mic observations of the COSMOS field at S24>~80muJy. Using accurate photo-zs and extrapolations of the counts at faint fluxes we resolve with unprecedented detail the build-up of the mid-IR background across cosmic ages. We find that ~50% and ~80% of the 24mic background intensity originate from galaxies at z<~1 and z<~2 respectively, supporting the scenario where highly obscured sources at very high redshifts (z>~2) contribute only marginally to the CIB. Assuming flux-limited selections at optical wavelengths, we also find that the fraction of i-band sources with 24mic detection strongly increases up to z~2 as a consequence of the rapid evolution that star-forming galaxies have undergone with lookback time. Nonetheless this rising trend shows a clear break at z~1.3, probably due to k-correction effects implied by the complexity of SEDs in the mid-IR. Finally, we compare our results with the predictions from different models of galaxy formation. We note that semi-analytical formalisms fail to reproduce the redshift distributions observed at 24mic. Furthermore the simulated galaxies exhibit R-K colors much bluer than observed and the predicted K-band fluxes are systematically underestimated at z>0.5. Unless these discrepancies result from an incorrect treatment of extinction they may reflect an underestimate of the predicted density of high-z massive sources with strong star formation, which would point to more fundamental processes that are still not fully controlled in the simulations. The most recent backward evolution scenarios reproduce reasonably well the flux/redshift distribution of 24mic sources up to z~3, although none of them is able to exactly match our results at all redshifts. [Abridged]

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