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Article Contents
- ABSTRACT
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 1.1.The history of baryon
transformations
- 1.2.Long-wavelength observations of galaxies: a view on
the diffuse media and on the "active" phases in galaxy evolution
- 1.3.Observational issues
- 1.4.These lectures
- 2.DUST IN GALAXIES
- 2.1.Generalities
- 2.2.Dust grains in the ISM
- 2.2.1Grain production
- 2.2.2Grain destruction
- 2.2.3.The evolution of the dust content in a galaxy
- 2.3.Interactions between dust and radiation
- 2.4.Alternative heating mechanisms for dust
- 2.5.The interstellar extinction curve
- 2.6.Models of the interstellar dust
- 3.EVALUATING THE DUST EMISSION SPECTRA
- 3.1.Radiative transfer in thick dusty media
- 3.1.1.Numerical solutions based on iterative schemes
- 3.1.2.Monte Carlo solutions
- 4.GENERALIZED SPECTRO-PHOTOMETRIC MODELS OF GALAXIES
- 4.1.Semi-empirical approaches
- 4.2.Detailed self-consistent spectro-photometric
models
- 4.2.1.Chemical evolution of the ISM
- 4.2.2.Geometrical distributions of gas and stars
- 4.2.3.Models of the molecular clouds (MC)
- 4.2.4.Models of diffuse dust (cirrus)
- 4.2.5.Modelling the SEDs of normal and starburst
galaxies
- 5.INFRARED AND SUB-MM LINE SPECTRA
- 5.1.The cold molecular gas
- 5.2.The cold neutral gas
- 5.3.The ionized component of the
ISM
- 6.IR STARBURST AND ULTRA-LUMINOUS GALAXIES IN THE LOCAL
UNIVERSE
- 6.1.The infrared-radio correlation
- 6.2.Estimates of the star formation rate (SFR)
- 6.3.Gas reservoirs, depletion
times, starburst duration
- 6.4.Starburst-driven super-winds
- 6.5.Starburst models
- 6.6.Statistical properties of active galaxy
populations
- 6.7.Starburst triggering
- 6.8.Ultra-luminous IR galaxies (ULIRGs)
- 6.9.Origin of elliptical galaxies and galaxy
spheroids
- 7.IR GALAXIES IN THE DISTANT UNIVERSE: PRE-ISO/SCUBA
RESULTS
- 8.THE BREAKTHROUGHS: DISCOVERY OF THE CIRB
- 8.1.Observational status about the CIRB
- 8.2.Constraints from observations of the cosmic
high-energy opacity
- 8.3.Contribution of cosmic sources to the CIRB: the
formalism
- 8.3.1.Source contribution to the background
intensity
- 8.3.2.Small scale intensity fluctuations
- 9.DEEP SKY SURVEYS WITH THE INFRARED SPACE OBSERVATORY
(ISO)
- 9.1.Motivations for deep ISO
surveys
- 9.2.Overview of the main ISO
surveys
- 9.2.1.The ISOCAM Guaranteed Time (GT) Extragalactic
Surveys
- 9.2.2.The European Large Area ISO Survey (ELAIS)
- 9.2.3.The ISOCAM observations of the two Hubble Deep
Fields
- 9.2.4.ISOCAM survey of two CFRS fields
- 9.2.5.The ISOPHOT FIRBACK survey program
- 9.2.6.The Lensing Cluster Surveys
- 9.2.7.The Japanese Guaranteed Time surveys
- 9.3.Data reduction
- 9.4.Mid-IR and far-IR source counts from ISO surveys
- 10.EXPLORATIONS OF THE DEEP UNIVERSE BY LARGE
MILLIMETRIC TELESCOPES
- 11.INTERPRETATIONS OF FAINT IR/MM GALAXY COUNTS
- 11.1.Predictions for non-evolving source populations
in the mid-IR
- 11.2.Evidence for a strongly evolving population of
mid-IR galaxies
- 11.3.A panchromatic view of IR galaxy evolution
- 12.NATURE OF THE FAST EVOLVING SOURCE POPULATION
- 12.1.Tests of the evolving IR population in the HDFs
and CFRS fields
- 12.1.1.Optical and NIR spectral properties: nature
of the IR sources
- 12.1.2.Evaluating baryonic masses and the SFR of the
IR population
- 12.2.What are the FIRBACK 175 µm
sources?
- 12.3.The nature of the high-z galaxies detected in the
millimeter
- 12.4.AGN contribution to the energetics of the faint IR
sources
- 12.5.Discussion
- 13.GLOBAL PROPERTIES: THE SFR DENSITY AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO
THE CIRB
- 13.1.Evolution of the comoving luminosity density
and SFR
- 13.2.Energy constraints from background observations
- 13.2.1.Constraints from the integrated optical
background
- 13.2.2.Explaining the CIRB background
- 13.2.3.Galactic winds and metal pollution of the
inter-cluster medium
- 13.2.4.A two-phase star-formation: origin of
galactic disks and spheroids
- 13.3.Contribution by gravitational accretion to the
global energetics
- 14.CONCLUSIONS
- REFERENCES