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to submit to Astrophysical Journal Modelling the evolution of dusty starburst galaxies in multi-band deep surveys 5 Y. P. Wang1,2 0 0 1Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 2 t 2 National Astronomical Observatory of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing c O ypwang@pmo.ac.cn 1 2 1 ABSTRACT v 7 3 6 We model the constraints set on the evolution of dusty starburst galaxies by 0 the current deep extragalactic surveys performed in the far-infrared with Spitzer , 1 5 and at radio wavelengths with the VLA. Our models fit the number counts in 0 all the available spectral bands well, and also provide a reasonably close match / h to the redshift distribution of the Spitzer detections. We find: 1.) dusty star- p - burst galaxies with infrared burst phases triggered by galactic interactions at o r redshift z ∼ 1 − 2 are good candidates to fit the Spitzer results at 24µm, 70µm t s and 160µm, assuming plausible strengths for the PAH features for the infrared a : luminous sources. An Arp220-like spectral energy distribution (SED) for Ultra- v i luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIGs) of Lir 1012 L⊙ and one like that of M82 for X 11−12 r Luminous Infrared Galaxies (LIGs) of Lir ∼ 10 L⊙ give a successful fit to the a Spitzer 24µm and ISOCAM 15µm number counts at flux levels of Sν 1 mJy ; 2.) the strong evolution of the number density of the ULIGs from redshift z ∼ 0