Infrared Emission from High-Redshift Galaxies in Cosmological SPH Simulations

We compute the infrared (IR) emission from high-redshift galaxies in cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations by coupling the output of the simulation with the population synthesis code `GRASIL’ by Silva et al. Based on the stellar mass, metallicity and formation time of each star particle, we estimate the full spectral energy distribution of each star particle from ultraviolet to IR, and compute the luminosity function of simulated galaxies in the Spitzer broadband filters for direct comparison with the available Spitzer observations.