Abstract
ABSTRACT The diffuse extragalactic background light (EBL) is formed by ultraviolet (UV), optical, and infrared (IR) photons mainly produced by star formation processes over the history of the Universe and contains essential information about galaxy evolution and cosmology. Here, we present a new determination of the evolving EBL spectral energy distribution using a novel approach purely based on galaxy data aiming to reduce current uncertainties on the higher redshifts and IR intensities. Our calculations use multiwavelength observations from the UV to the far-IR of a sample of approximately 150 000 galaxies detected up to z ∼ 6 in the five fields of the Cosmic Assembly Near-Infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey from the Hubble Space Telescope. This is one of the most comprehensive and deepest multiwavelength galaxy data sets ever obtained. These unprecedented resources allow us to derive the overall EBL evolution up to z ∼ 6 and its uncertainties. Our results agree with cosmic observables estimated from galaxy surveys and γ-ray attenuation such as monochromatic luminosity densities, including those in the far-IR, and star formation rate densities, also at the highest redshifts. Optical depths from our EBL approximation, which will be robust at high redshifts and for γ-rays up to tens of TeV, will be reported in a companion paper.
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