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most citedOn the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy

127 citations · 557 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment-2: An Intensity Mapping Optimized Sounding-rocket Payload to Understand the Near-IR Extragalactic Background Light

Michael Zemcov, James J. Bock, Asantha Cooray +37

The background light produced by emission from all sources over cosmic history is a powerful diagnostic of structure formation and evolution. At near-infrared wavelengths, this ext…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 8 cited

Polarization spectrum of near infrared zodiacal light observed with CIBER

Kohji Takimoto, Toshiaki Arai, Shuji Matsuura +14

We report the first measurement of the zodiacal light (ZL) polarization spectrum in the near-infrared between 0.8 and 1.8 m. Using the low-resolution spectrometer (LRS) on board…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 19 cited

Measurements of the Zodiacal Light Absolute Intensity through Fraunhofer Absorption Line Spectroscopy with CIBER

Phillip Korngut, Min Gyu Kim, Toshiaki Arai +14

Scattered sunlight from the interplanetary dust (IPD) cloud in our Solar system presents a serious foreground challenge for spectro-photometric measurements of the Extragalactic Ba…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Probing Intra-Halo Light with Galaxy Stacking in CIBER Images

Yun-Ting Cheng, Toshiaki Arai, Priyadarshini Bangale +13

We study the stellar halos of galaxies with stellar masses spanning to (approximately galaxies at this redsh…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 16 cited

MIRIS observation of near-infrared diffuse Galactic light

Y. Onishi, K. Sano, S. Matsuura +17

We report near-infrared (IR) observations of high Galactic latitude clouds to investigate diffuse Galactic light (DGL), which is starlight scattered by interstellar dust grains. Th…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 106 cited

New Spectral Evidence of an Unaccounted Component of the Near-infrared Extragalactic Background Light from the CIBER

Shuji Matsuura, Toshiaki Arai, James J. Bock +12

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) captures the total integrated emission from stars and galaxies throughout the cosmic history. The amplitude of the near-infrared EBL from s…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 1 cited

Low-Resolution Near-infrared Stellar Spectra Observed by the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER)

Min Gyu Kim, Hyung Mok Lee, Toshiaki Arai +17

We present near-infrared (0.8-1.8 m) spectra of 105 bright ( 10) stars observed with the low resolution spectrometer on the rocket-borne Cosmic Infrared Background…

astro-ph.GA2016

First Detection of Galactic Latitude Dependence of Near-Infrared Diffuse Galactic Light from DIRBE Reanalysis

K. Sano, S. Matsuura, K. Tsumura +3

Observational study on near-infrared (IR) scattering properties of interstellar dust grains has been limited due to its faintness. Using all-sky maps obtained from Diffuse Infrared…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 34 cited

Measurements of Diffuse Sky Emission Components in High Galactic Latitudes at 3.5 and 4.9 um Using DIRBE and WISE Data

K. Sano, K. Kawara, S. Matsuura +3

Using all-sky maps obtained from COBE/DIRBE at 3.5 and 4.9 um, we present a reanalysis of diffuse sky emissions such as zodiacal light (ZL), diffuse Galactic light (DGL), integrate…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 40 cited

Derivation of a large isotropic diffuse sky emission component at 1.25 and 2.2um from the COBE/DIRBE data

K. Sano, K. Kawara, S. Matsuura +3

Using all-sky maps obtained with COBE/DIRBE, we reanalyzed the diffuse sky brightness at 1.25 and 2.2 um, which consists of zodiacal light, diffuse Galactic light (DGL), integrated…

astro-ph.GA2015★ 34 cited

Measurements of the mean diffuse galactic light spectrum in the 0.95 μm to 1.65 μm band from CIBER

T. Arai, S. Matsuura, J. Bock +13

We report measurements of the Diffuse Galactic Light (DGL) spectrum in the near-infrared, spanning the wavelength range 0.95-1.65 μm by the Cosmic Infrared Background ExpeRiment (C…

astro-ph.CO2014★ 127 cited

On the Origin of Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy

Michael Zemcov, Joseph Smidt, Toshiaki Arai +13

Extragalactic background light (EBL) anisotropy traces variations in the total production of photons over cosmic history, and may contain faint, extended components missed in galax…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 20 cited

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): the Narrow Band Spectrometer

P. M. Korngut, T. Renbarger, T. Arai +21

We have developed a near-infrared spectrometer designed to measure the absolute intensity of the Solar 854.2 nm CaII Fraunhofer line, scattered by interplanetary dust, in the Zodia…

astro-ph.IM2012★ 34 cited

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): The Wide-Field Imagers

J. Bock, I. Sullivan, T. Arai +19

We have developed and characterized an imaging instrument to measure the spatial properties of the diffuse near-infrared extragalactic background light in a search for fluctuations…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 20 cited

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): The Low Resolution Spectrometer

K. Tsumura, T. Arai, J. Battle +20

Absolute spectrophotometric measurements of diffuse radiation at 1 μm to 2 μm are crucial to our understanding of the radiative content of the Universe from nucleosynthesis since t…

astro-ph.IM2011★ 38 cited

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER): A Sounding Rocket Payload to Study the Near Infrared Extragalactic Background Light

M. Zemcov, T. Arai, J. Battle +16

The Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER) is a suite of four instruments designed to study the near infrared (IR) background light from above the Earth's atmosphere. The in…

astro-ph.CO2011★ 3 cited

Measuring Light from the Epoch of Reionization with CIBER, the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment

Michael Zemcov, Toshiaki Arai, John Battle +17

Ultraviolet emission from the first generation of stars in the Universe ionized the intergalactic medium in a process which was completed by z~6; the wavelength of these photons ha…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 1 cited

Monolithic Ge:Ga Detector Development for SAFARI

Y. Doi, Y. Sawayama, S. Matsuura +5

We describe the current status and the prospect for the development of monolithic Ge:Ga array detector for SAFARI. Our goal is to develop a 64x64 array for the 45 -- 110 um band, o…