2005/09/19 by G. Lagache, H. Dole, Lagache, G. +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0509556
To appear in The Fabulous Destiny of Galaxies: Bridging Past and Present, conference held in Marseille, June 2005
arxiv created 2005/09/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
The discovery of the Cosmic Infrared Background (CIB) in 1996, together with recent cosmological surveys from the mid-infrared to the millimeter have revolutionized our view of star formation at high redshifts. It has become clear, in the last decade, that a population of galaxies that radiate most of their power in the far-infrared (the so-called ``infrared galaxies'') contributes an important part of the whole galaxy build-up in the Universe. Since 1996, detailed (and often painful) investigations of the high-redshift infrared galaxies have resulted in the spectacular progress reviewed in this paper. Among others, we emphasize a new Spitzer result based on a Far-IR stacking analysis of mid-IR sources.