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Galaxy Evolution in the IR and the Promise of SIRTF (Invited)

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The launch of SIRTF on August 25, 2003, opens an exciting new era for the infrared. Building on the legacy of IRAS, COBE & ISO, SIRTF will image the sky from 3.6–160μm in tiered surveys, from wide (∼80 sq. deg.) reaching z∼1 in depth for L *FIR galaxies, to small, deep, confusion-limited surveys. SIRTF will measure the accumulation of stellar mass at high redshift, and the evolution of dusty systems (disks, starbursts & AGN) since z∼4, on size scales up to several hundred Mpc. The next decade will also see two major all-sky IR surveys, ASTRO-F and WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), and the launch of Herschel and Planck.

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Lonsdale, C.J. (2004). Galaxy Evolution in the IR and the Promise of SIRTF (Invited). In: Plionis, M. (eds) Multiwavelength Cosmology. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48570-2_33

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