A dataset provided by the European Space Agency

Name FIRBACK
Title STRUCTURE OF THE FAR INFRARED BACKGROUND
URL

http://nida.esac.esa.int/nida-sl-tap/data?RETRIEVAL_TYPE=OBSERVATION&PRODUCT_LEVEL=ALL&obsno=864019070

DOI https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-85hehli
Author PUGET, JEAN-LOUP
Description this proposal is prompted by the discovery of a far infrared isotropic background in the cobe-firas data (puget et al 1995) which is likely to be the extragalactic background due to early galaxies. the background and its structure are likely to be dominated by a population of high redshift sources. we propose a deep survey at 160 micron reaching significantly below the confusion limit. the extragalactic background is an significant fraction of the total sky brightness at wavelengths longer than 200 microns, and the proposed observations will extend the iso deep surveys to the longest wavelength accessible to iso with good sensitivity. the proposed observation will give the statistical properties of the fluctuations of the background and should be able to detect the extragalactic component of these fluctuations if, as predicted in some models, they dominate over the cirrus fluctuations in the cleanest high latitude windows.
Instrument PHT22 , PHT25
Temporal Coverage 1997-06-30T23:11:33Z/1998-03-28T23:33:14Z
Version 1.0
Mission Description The Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) was the world's first true orbiting infrared observatory. Equipped with four highly-sophisticated and versatile scientific instruments, it was launched by Ariane in November 1995 and provided astronomers world-wide with a facility of unprecedented sensitivity and capabilities for a detailed exploration of the Universe at infrared wavelengths.
Creator Contact https://support.cosmos.esa.int/iso/
Date Published 1999-04-15T00:00:00Z
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, PUGET, JEAN-LOUP, 1999, FIRBACK, 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-85hehli