CIBER Fourth-flight Fluctuation Analysis: Measurements of Near-infrared Auto and Cross Power Spectra on Arcminute to Subdegree Scales
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We present new anisotropy measurements in the near-infrared for angular multipoles 300 < ℓ < 10 5 using imaging data at 1.1 and 1.8 μ m from the fourth flight of the Cosmic Infrared Background Experiment (CIBER). Using improved analysis methods and higher-quality fourth-flight data, we detect surface brightness fluctuations on scales ℓ < 2000 with CIBER auto power spectra at ∼14 σ and 18 σ for 1.1 and 1.8 μ m, respectively, and with cross power spectra at ∼10 σ . The CIBER measurements pass internal consistency tests and represent a 5–10× improvement in power spectrum sensitivity on several-arcminute scales relative to that of existing studies. Through cross correlations with tracers of diffuse galactic light (DGL), we determine that scattered DGL contributes <10% to the observed fluctuation power at high confidence. On scales ℓ < 2000 ( θ > 5 ′ ), the CIBER auto and cross power spectra exceed predictions for integrated galactic light (IGL) and integrated stellar light (ISL) by over an order of magnitude, and are inconsistent with our baseline IGL+ISL+DGL model at high significance. We cross-correlate two of the CIBER fields with 3.6 and 4.5 μ m mosaics from the Spitzer Deep Wide-field Survey and find similar evidence for departures from Poisson noise in Spitzer-internal power spectra and CIBER × Spitzer cross power spectra. A multiband analysis indicates that the wavelength dependence of low- ℓ auto power fluctuations is bluer than the Poisson noise from IGL and ISL; however, the cross correlation coefficient r ℓ of nearly all band combinations decreases with decreasing ℓ , disfavoring astrophysical explanations that invoke a single correlated sky component.
Source: The Astrophysical Journal
Institutions: California Institute of Technology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, Kwansei Gakuin University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Tokyo City University, Rochester Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $4,499
Awards: G2098381864, WE PROPOSE TO CARRY OUT A PROGRAM OF OBSERVATIONS WITH THE COSMIC INFRARED BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT (CIBER-2), A SOUNDING ROCKET INSTRUMENT DESIGNED TO, G6701840610, G816880806, WE PROPOSE AN UPGRADE TO THE COSMIC INFRARED EXTRAGLACTIC BACKGROUND EXPERIMENT (CIBER), A NEAR-INFRARED SOUNDING ROCKET EXPERIMENT, TO CONDUCT A DEE
OpenAlex ID: W4416126380