First results from HerMES on the evolution of the submillimetre luminosity function

S. Eales (Cardiff) , G. Raymond , I. G. Roseboom , B. Altieri , A. Amblard , V. Arumugam , R. Auld , H. Aussel

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We have carried out two extremely deep surveys with SPIRE, one of the two cameras on Herschel, at 250 microns, close to the peak of the far-infrared background. We have used the results to investigate the evolution of the rest-frame 250-micron luminosity function out to z=2. We find evidence for strong evolution out to a redshift of around 1 but evidence for at most weak evolution beyond this redshift. Our results suggest that a significant part of the stars and metals in the Universe today were formed at z<1.4 in spiral galaxies.

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First results from HerMES on the evolution of the submillimetre luminosity function

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