Over half of the far-infrared background light comes from galaxies at z >= 1.2

Mark J. Devlin, Peter A. R. Ade, Itziar Aretxaga +26

Submillimetre surveys during the past decade have discovered a population of luminous, high-redshift, dusty starburst galaxies. In the redshift range 1 <= z <= 4, these massive sub…