New Method for ISOCAM Data Reduction - II. Mid-Infrared Extragalactic Source Counts in the Southern ELAIS Field

Abstract

We present the 15 micron extragalactic source counts from the Final Analysis Catalogue of the European Large Area ISO Survey southern hemisphere field S1, extracted using the Lari method. The large number of extragalactic sources (about 350) detected over this area between 0.5 and 100 mJy guarantee a high statistical significance of the source counts in the previously poorly covered flux density range between IRAS and the Deep ISOCAM Surveys. The bright counts in S1 (> 2mJy) are consistent with a flat, Euclidean slope, suggesting the dominance of a non-evolving population. In contrast, at fainter fluxes (< 2 mJy) our counts show a strong departure from no evolution models, with a very steep super-Euclidean slope down to our flux limit. Strong luminosity and density evolution is needed at least for the population of star-forming galaxies, together with a luminosity break around 10^10.8 Lsun in their local luminosity function in order to reproduce our sharp increase of the counts below 2 mJy and the redshift distributions observed for 15 micron sources at different flux levels. The contribution of the strongly evolving starburst population (down to 50 microJy) to the 15 micron cosmic background is estimated to be 2.2 nW m^-2 sr^-1 (67% of the total mid-infrared background estimate).

14 pages, LaTeX, MNRAS style, 16 postscript figures, Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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