{"id":13061,"date":"2024-04-25T21:40:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2024-04-25T22:07:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T08:07:57","slug":"jcmt-science-highlight-unlocking-the-mystery-of-the-cosmic-infrared-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/2024\/04\/jcmt-science-highlight-unlocking-the-mystery-of-the-cosmic-infrared-background\/","title":{"rendered":"JCMT Science Highlight: Unlocking the mystery of the Cosmic Infrared Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"C9DxTc \">Utilizing the SCUBA-2 camera mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, an international team led by graduate student Qi-Ning Hsu and Dr. Chian-Chou Chen from the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has successfully resolved the cosmic infrared background (CIB) at <\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \">450<\/span><span class=\"C9DxTc \"> \u03bcm<\/span> <span class=\"C9DxTc \">and confirmed its origin from galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The result has published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters in March, 2024. You can find more details <a href=\"https:\/\/press.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw\/ASIAA_TAIWAN_News\/240426\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13062\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/TC_f1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13062\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13062\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/TC_f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/TC_f1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/TC_f1-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/TC_f1-1024x740.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/TC_f1-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/04\/TC_f1-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Background) Illustration of cosmic background radiation taken by the COBE satellite. The origin of the background light in infrared remains an open question. (Right panel) An example 450 \u03bcm image taken by the SCUBA-2 camera where the red circles show the detected galaxies. This groundbreaking observations clearly show that these galaxies are the origin of the 450 \u03bcm background light. Image Credit: COBE\/Hsu et al.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utilizing the SCUBA-2 camera mounted on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii, an international team led by graduate student Qi-Ning Hsu and Dr. Chian-Chou Chen from the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has successfully resolved the cosmic infrared background (CIB) at 450 \u03bcm and confirmed its\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/2024\/04\/jcmt-science-highlight-unlocking-the-mystery-of-the-cosmic-infrared-background\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":13062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13061"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13064,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions\/13064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaobservatory.org\/jcmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}