Bibcode
Serjeant, S. B. G.; Eaton, N.; Oliver, S. J.; Efstathiou, A.; Goldschmidt, P.; Mann, R. G.; Mobasher, B.; Rowan-Robinson, M.; Sumner, T. J.; Danese, L.; Elbaz, D.; Franceschini, A.; Egami, E.; Kontizas, M.; Lawrence, A.; McMahon, R.; Norgaard-Nielsen, H. U.; Perez-Fournon, I.; Gonzalez-Serrano, J. I.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 289, Issue 2, pp. 457-464.
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1997
Citations
53
Refereed citations
41
Description
We present deep imaging at 6.7 and 15 mu from the CAM instrument on the
Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), centred on the Hubble Deep Field
(HDF). These are the deepest integrations published to date at these
wavelengths in any region of sky. We discuss the observational strategy
and the data reduction. The observed source density appears to approach
the CAM confusion limit at 15 mu, and fluctuations in the 6.7-mu sky
background may be identifiable with similar spatial fluctuations in the
HDF galaxy counts. ISO appears to be detecting comparable field galaxy
populations to the HDF, and our data yield strong evidence that future
infrared missions (such as SIRTF, FIRST and WIRE) as well as SCUBA and
millimetre arrays will easily detect field galaxies out to comparably
high redshifts.