The star formation history in the last 10 billion years from CIB cross-correlations

Abstract

The Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) traces the emission of star-forming galaxies throughout all cosmic epochs. Breaking down the contribution from galaxies at different redshifts to the observed CIB maps would allow us to probe the history of star formation. In this paper, we cross-correlate maps of the CIB with galaxy samples covering the range $z\lesssim 2$ to measure the bias-weighted star-formation rate (SFR) density $⟨b{\rho }_{\mathrm{SFR}}⟩$ as a function of time in a model independent way. This quantity is complementary to direct measurements of the SFR density ${\rho }_{\mathrm{SFR}}$, giving a higher weight to more massive haloes, and thus provides additional information to constrain the physical properties of star formation. Using cross-correlations of the CIB with galaxies from the DESI Legacy Survey and the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, we obtain high signal-to-noise ratio measurements of $⟨b{\rho }_{\mathrm{SFR}}⟩$, which we then use to place constraints on halo-based models of the star-formation history. We fit halo-based SFR models to our data and compare the recovered ${\rho }_{\mathrm{SFR}}$ with direct measurements of this quantity. We find a qualitatively good agreement between both independent datasets, although the details depend on the specific halo model assumed. This constitutes a useful robustness test for the physical interpretation of the CIB, and reinforces the role of CIB maps as valuable astrophysical probes of the large-scale structure. We report our measurements of $⟨b{\rho }_{\mathrm{SFR}}⟩$ as well as a thorough account of their statistical uncertainties, which can be used to constrain star formation models in combination with other data.

arXiv comment17 pages, 11 figures, comments welcome

References in corpus (87)

• SciPy 1.0--Fundamental Algorithms for Scientific Computing in Python
• Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy
• emcee: The MCMC Hammer
• The NumPy array: a structure for efficient numerical computation
• Galactic Stellar and Substellar Initial Mass Function
• The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package
• Star Formation in Galaxies Along the Hubble Sequence
• HEALPix -- a Framework for High Resolution Discretization, and Fast Analysis of Data Distributed on the Sphere
• Cosmic Star Formation History
• Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies
• How Do Galaxies Get Their Gas?
• Halo Models of Large Scale Structure
• Overview of the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
• Toward a halo mass function for precision cosmology: the limits of universality
• HI4PI: A full-sky HI survey based on EBHIS and GASS
• The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts
• Revising the Halofit Model for the Nonlinear Matter Power Spectrum
• Analytic model for galaxy and dark matter clustering
• The IRAS Revised Bright Galaxy Sample (RBGS)
• The Dark Energy Camera
• Halo occupation numbers and galaxy bias
• The Large Scale Bias of Dark Matter Halos: Numerical Calibration and Model Tests
• The Halo Occupation Distribution: Towards an Empirical Determination of the Relation Between Galaxies and Mass
• MASTER of the CMB Anisotropy Power Spectrum: A Fast Method for Statistical Analysis of Large and Complex CMB Data Sets
• The Merger Rates and Mass Assembly Histories of Dark Matter Haloes in the Two Millennium Simulations
• The Cosmic Infrared Background Resolved by Spitzer. Contributions of Mid-Infrared Galaxies to the Far-Infrared Background
• The Herschel PEP/HerMES Luminosity Function. I: Probing the Evolution of PACS selected Galaxies to z~4
• The deepest Herschel-PACS far-infrared survey: number counts and infrared luminosity functions from combined PEP/GOODS-H observations
• EMERGE - An empirical model for the formation of galaxies since $z\sim 10$
• A unified pseudo-$C_{\ell }$ framework
• The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from anisotropic clustering analysis of the Quasar Sample in configuration space between redshift 0.8 and 2.2
• Evolution of the dusty infrared luminosity function from z=0 to z=2.3 using observations from Spitzer
• HMcode-2020: Improved modelling of non-linear cosmological power spectra with baryonic feedback
• Evolution of the dust emission of massive galaxies up to z=4 and constraints on their dominant mode of star formation
• Planck 2013 results. XXX. Cosmic infrared background measurements and implications for star formation
• Core Cosmology Library: Precision Cosmological Predictions for LSST
• Power Spectrum Super-Sample Covariance
• Calibrating Redshift Distributions Beyond Spectroscopic Limits with Cross-Correlations
• The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: BAO and RSD measurements from the anisotropic power spectrum of the Quasar sample between redshift 0.8 and 2.2
• Detection of Cosmic Magnification with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
• The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: IV. Cosmological Implications
• Planck Early Results XVIII: The power spectrum of cosmic infrared background anisotropies
• The Completed SDSS-IV extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Large-scale Structure Catalogs for Cosmological Analysis
• The impact of clustering and angular resolution on far-infrared and millimeter continuum observations
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: likelihood for small-scale CMB data
• HerMES: Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies and the Clustering of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies
• Planck 2013 results. XVIII. Gravitational lensing-infrared background correlation
• GAMA/H-ATLAS: A meta-analysis of SFR indicators - comprehensive measures of the SFR-M* relation and Cosmic Star Formation History at z < 0.4
• Parameter constraints from cross-correlation of CMB lensing with galaxy clustering
• Extragalactic Foreground Contamination in Temperature-based CMB Lens Reconstruction
• CMB Lensing Power Spectrum Biases from Galaxies and Clusters using High-angular Resolution Temperature Maps
• What Does Clustering Tell Us About the Buildup of the Red Sequence?
• Cosmological constraints from unWISE and Planck CMB lensing tomography
• The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: A CMB lensing mass map over 2100 square degrees of sky and its cross-correlation with BOSS-CMASS galaxies
• The redshift-evolution of the distribution of star formation among dark matter halos as seen in the infrared
• The Luminosity Function of IRAS PSCz Galaxies
• Probing Early Structure Formation with Far-Infrared Background Correlations
• A New Prescription for Protogalactic Feedback and Outflows: Where Have All the Baryons Gone?
• Improved Models for Cosmic Infrared Background Anisotropies: New Constraints on the IR Galaxy Population
• The growth of density perturbations in the last $\sim$10 billion years from tomographic large-scale structure data
• Galaxy clustering in the DESI Legacy Survey and its imprint on the CMB
• Joint constraints on cosmology and the impact of baryon feedback: combining KiDS-1000 lensing with the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect from Planck and ACT
• The-wiZZ: Clustering redshift estimation for everyone
• Tomographic measurement of the intergalactic gas pressure through galaxy-tSZ cross-correlations
• Disconnected pseudo-$C_{\ell }$ covariances for projected large-scale structure data
• Cosmic shear power spectra in practice
• The history of star formation from the cosmic infrared background anisotropies
• The Cosmic Thermal History Probed by Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Tomography
• Large-scale Maps of the Cosmic Infrared Background from Planck
• Constraints on the redshift evolution of astrophysical feedback with Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect cross-correlations
• The HerMES sub-millimetre local and low-redshift luminosity functions
• Including beyond-linear halo bias in halo models
• Faint Submillimeter Galaxies identified through their optical/near-infrared colours I: spatial clustering and halo masses
• Simple halo model formalism for the cosmic infrared background and its correlation with the thermal Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect
• Broadband Intensity Tomography: Spectral Tagging of the Cosmic UV Background
• Measurement of the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect around cosmic voids
• Cross-correlation of cosmic far-infrared background anisotropies with large scale structures
• The Third Data Release of the Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey
• Cross-correlating radio continuum surveys and CMB lensing: constraining redshift distributions, galaxy bias and cosmology
• The Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect: unWISE and Planck constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy
• Cosmological constraints from the observed angular cross-power spectrum between Sunyaev-Zel'dovich and X-ray surveys
• Cosmic Infrared Background anisotropies as a window into primordial non-Gaussianity
• The co-evolution of black hole growth and star formation from a cross-correlation analysis between quasars and the cosmic infrared background
• Cosmology from Clustering, Cosmic Shear, CMB Lensing, and Cross Correlations: Combining Rubin Observatory and Simons Observatory
• Improving models of the cosmic infrared background using CMB lensing mass maps
• Cross-Correlation of Far-Infrared Background Anisotropies and CMB Lensing from Herschel and Planck satellites
• An Assessment of Contamination in the thermal-SZ Map Using Cross Correlations

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Euclid. I. Overview of the Euclid mission
• Quaia, the Gaia-unWISE Quasar Catalog: An All-Sky Spectroscopic Quasar Sample
• A multi-tracer empirically-driven approach to line-intensity mapping lightcones
• Constraints on dark matter and astrophysics from tomographic $\gamma$-ray cross-correlations
• Systematics mitigation for catalogue-based angular power spectra
• Challenges of standard halo models in constraining galaxy properties from CIB anisotropies