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Galaxy And Mass Assembly : the evolution of the cosmic spectral energy distribution from z = 1 to z = 0

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09/2017
Author
Andrews, Stephen K.
Driver, Simon P.
Davies, Luke J. M.
Kafle, Prajwal R.
Robotham, Aaron S. G.
Vinsen, Kevin
Wright, Angus H.
Bland-Hawthorn, Joss
Bourne, Nathan
Bremer, Malcolm
Cunha, Elisabete da
Drinkwater, Michael
Holwerda, Benne
Hopkins, Andrew M.
Kelvin, Lee S.
Loveday, John
Phillipps, Steven
Wilkins, Stephen
Keywords
Galaxies: evolution
Galaxies: general
Cosmic background radiation
Cosmology: obsvervations
QB Astronomy
QC Physics
3rd-DAS
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We present the evolution of the cosmic spectral energy distribution (CSED) from z = 1 to 0. Our CSEDs originate from stacking individual spectral energy distribution (SED) fits based on panchromatic photometry from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) and COSMOS data sets in 10 redshift intervals with completeness corrections applied. Below z = 0.45, we have credible SED fits from 100 nm to 1 mm. Due to the relatively low sensitivity of the far-infrared data, our far-infrared CSEDs contain a mix of predicted and measured fluxes above z = 0.45. Our results include appropriate errors to highlight the impact of these corrections. We show that the bolometric energy output of the Universe has declined by a factor of roughly 4 – from 5.1 ± 1.0 at z ∼ 1 to 1.3 ± 0.3 × 1035 h70 W Mpc−3 at the current epoch. We show that this decrease is robust to cosmic sample variance, the SED modelling and other various types of error. Our CSEDs are also consistent with an increase in the mean age of stellar populations. We also show that dust attenuation has decreased over the same period, with the photon escape fraction at 150 nm increasing from 16 ± 3 at z ∼ 1 to 24 ± 5 per cent at the current epoch, equivalent to a decrease in AFUV of 0.4 mag. Our CSEDs account for 68 ± 12 and 61 ± 13 per cent of the cosmic optical and infrared backgrounds, respectively, as defined from integrated galaxy counts and are consistent with previous estimates of the cosmic infrared background with redshift.
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Andrews , S K , Driver , S P , Davies , L J M , Kafle , P R , Robotham , A S G , Vinsen , K , Wright , A H , Bland-Hawthorn , J , Bourne , N , Bremer , M , Cunha , E D , Drinkwater , M , Holwerda , B , Hopkins , A M , Kelvin , L S , Loveday , J , Phillipps , S & Wilkins , S 2017 , ' Galaxy And Mass Assembly : the evolution of the cosmic spectral energy distribution from z = 1 to z = 0 ' , Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , vol. 470 , no. 2 , pp. 1342-1359 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1279
Publication
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1279
ISSN
0035-8711
Type
Journal article
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© 2017, the Author(s). This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1279
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URL
http://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07596v1
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/12572

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