Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1. Galaxies in the Infrared
  • 1.1 The Infrared Spectral Region
    • 1.1.1 The Near-Infrared Region
    • 1.1.2 The Mid-Infrared Region
    • 1.1.3 The Far-Infrared Region
  • 1.2 Origin of Infrared Emission in Galaxies
  • 1.3 Galaxy Activity at Infrared Wavelengths
  • 1.4 Luminous Infrared Galaxies
    • 1.4.1 Properties of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
    • 1.4.2 Radio-Infrared Correlation
  • 1.5 Results from ISO
    • 1.5.1 Normal Galaxies
    • 1.5.2 Active Galaxies
    • 1.5.3 Starburst Galaxies
    • 1.5.4 Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
  
  
• 2. ISO Extragalactic Surveys
  • 2.1 The Cosmic Infrared Background Radiation
  • 2.2 ISO Extragalactic Survey Program
    • 2.2.1 ISOCAM Guaranteed Time (GT) Extragalactic Surveys
    • 2.2.2 ISOCAM Observations of the Two Hubble Deep Fields
    • 2.2.3 ISOCAM Survey of Two CFRS Fields
    • 2.2.4 ISOPHOT FIRBACK Survey
    • 2.2.5 ELAIS: The European Large Area ISO Survey
    • 2.2.6 Lensing Cluster Surveys
    • 2.2.7 Japanese Guaranteed Time Surveys
    • 2.2.8 PHOT Serendipitous Survey and CAM Parallel Survey
  • 2.3 Properties of ISOCAM Extragalactic Sources
  • 2.4 ISO Galaxy Counts
    • 2.4.1 Mid Infrared
    • 2.4.2 Far Infrared
  • 2.5 Cosmic Star Formation History
    • 2.5.1 Star Formation from Optical and Near-IR Surveys
    • 2.5.2 Star Formation from ISO Surveys
  
  
• 3. The ISO Satellite : Mission and Instrumentation
  • 3.1 Mission Overview
    • 3.1.1 Spacecraft
    • 3.1.2 Telescope
    • 3.1.3 Instrumentation
  • 3.2 ISO-CAM
    • 3.2.1 Detectors
    • 3.2.2 LW Array
  • 3.3 Photometric Imaging with ISOCAM
  
  
• 4. The LARI Method for ISO-CAM/PHOT Data Reduction and Analysis
  • 4.1 ISO Space Environment: Cosmic Rays and Glitches
  • 4.2 ISO-CAM/PHOT Data Reduction and Analysis
  • 4.3 The LARI Method
  • 4.4 Mathematical Model
  • 4.5 Pipeline
  • 4.6 Fitting
  • 4.7 Interactive Analysis
  • 4.8 Mapping
  • 4.9 Mosaicing
  • 4.10 Autosimulation
  • 4.11 LARI Software
  • 4.12 Functional Analysis
  • 4.13 Testing
    • 4.13.1 Pipeline Performance
    • 4.13.2 Overall Data Reduction Performance
  • 4.14 The LARI Package for ISO-CAM/PHOT Data Reduction and Analysis
  
  
• 5. ELAIS : The European Large Area ISO Survey
  • 5.1 Scientific goals
    • 5.1.1 Cosmic Star Formation History
    • 5.1.2 Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies at High Redshift
    • 5.1.3 Emission from Dust Tori Around AGN
    • 5.1.4 Dust in Normal Galaxies to Cosmological Distances
    • 5.1.5 Circumstellar Dust Emission from Galactic Halo Stars
    • 5.1.6 New Classes of Galactic and Extragalactic Objects
    • 5.1.7 Cosmic Infrared Background
  • 5.2 Survey Definition
    • 5.2.1 Time Awarded
    • 5.2.2 Selection of Survey Wavelengths and Areas
    • 5.2.3 Field Selection
  • 5.3 ISO Observations
  • 5.4 Data Analyses
  • 5.5 Preliminary Analysis
  • 5.6 Multi-Wavelength Follow-Up
    • 5.6.1 Radio Observations
    • 5.6.2 Sub-mm Observations
    • 5.6.3 Near-Infrared Observations
    • 5.6.4 Optical Observations
    • 5.6.5 X-Ray Observations
  
  
• 6. Final Analysis of ELAIS 15 m Observations
  • 6.1 ELAIS 15 m Observations
  • 6.2 Data Reduction
  • 6.3 Pipeline, Fitting and Some Interactive Analysis
  • 6.4 Mapping, Mosaicing and More Interactive Analysis
  • 6.5 Simulations
  • 6.6 Flux Determination
  • 6.7 Flux Correction
  • 6.8 Autosimulation vs. Aperture Photometry
  • 6.9 Catalogue Flux Distribution
  • 6.10 Optical Identifications
  • 6.11 Astrometric Accuracy
  • 6.12 Photometric Accuracy
  • 6.13 Photometric Calibration
  • 6.14 ELAIS 15 m Final Analysis Catalogue
  
  
• 7. Multi-Wavelength Studies of ELAIS 15 m Final Analysis Sources
  • 7.1 Optical Identification of 15 m Sources in N1 and N2 Fields
    • 7.1.1 Optical Dataset and Data Reduction
    • 7.1.2 Identification
    • 7.1.3 Optical Counterparts
  • 7.2 ELAIS Band-Merged Catalogue: Construction
    • 7.2.1 Band-Merging
    • 7.2.2 Catalogue Description
    • 7.2.3 Associations
  • 7.3 ELAIS Band-Merged Catalogue: Properties
    • 7.3.1 Colour-Colour Diagrams
    • 7.3.2 Photometric Redshifts
    • 7.3.3 Spectral Energy Distributions
    • 7.3.4 ULIRGs, HLIRGS, EROs and EMNOs
  
  
• 8. Spitzer Extragalactic Surveys
  • 8.1 Spitzer
  • 8.2 Observing Modes
  • 8.3 Observing Time
  • 8.4 SWIRE
  • 8.5 SWIRE and ELAIS
  • 8.6 Spitzer Early Instrumental Performance
    • 8.6.1 Spacecraft
    • 8.6.2 IRAC
    • 8.6.3 IRS
    • 8.6.4 MIPS
    • 8.6.5 Observing with Spitzer
  • 8.7 Spitzer and the LARI Method
  
  
• A. The LARI Package User's Manual
• B. Past and Future Infrared Extragalactic Surveys
  • B.1 In the Beginning...
  • B.2 The 2.2 m and AFGL Surveys
  • B.3 IRAS
  • B.4 COBE
  • B.5 2MASS
  • B.6 From ISO to Spitzer
  • B.7 ASTRO-F
  • B.8 Herschel
  • B.9 JWST
  
  
• Bibliography