The Infrared Glow of First Stars

Abstract

Kashlinsky et al. (2005) find a significant cosmic infrared background fluctuation excess on angular scales >50 arcsec that cannot be explained by instrumental noise or local foregrounds. The excess has been tentatively attributed to emission from primordial very massive (PopIII) stars formed <200 Myr after the Big Bang. Using an evolutionary model motivated by independent observations and including various feedback processes, we find that PopIII stars can contribute <40% of the total background intensity (νJ_ν~ 1-2 nW m^-2 sr^-1 in the 0.8-8 \mum range) produced by all galaxies (hosting both PopIII and PopII stars) at z>5. The infrared fluctuation excess is instead very precisely accounted by the clustering signal of galaxies at z>5, predominantly hosting PopII stars with masses and properties similar to the present ones.

arXiv comment4 pages, 2 figures, MNRAS in press

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