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Introductory Remarks on The Extragalactic Infrared Background and its Cosmological Implications

P. J. E. Peebles

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0010617

Abstract

I review the assumptions and observations that motivate the concept of the extragalactic cosmic background radiation, and the issues of energy accounts and star formation history as a function of galaxy morphological type that figure in the interpretation of the measurements of the extragalactic infrared background.

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