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Interpreting the Cosmic Infrared Background: Constraints on the Evolution of the Dust‐enshrouded Star Formation Rate

Interpreting the Cosmic Infrared Background: Constraints on the Evolution of the Dust‐enshrouded Star Formation Rate

The mid-infrared local luminosity function is evolved with redshift to fit the spectrum of the cosmic infrared background (CIRB) at λ > 5 μm and the galaxy counts from various surveys at mid-infrared, far-infrared, and submillimeter wavelengths. A variety of evolutionary models provide satisfactory fits to the CIRB and the …