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We present a current best estimate of the integrated near-infrared (NIR)extragalactic background light (EBL) attributable to resolved galaxies in J, H,and Ks. Our results in units of nW m-2 sr-1 are 11.7+5.6 -2.6 in J, 11.5+4.5-1.5 in H and 10.0+2.8 -0.8 in Ks. We derive these new limits by combining ourdeep wide-field NIR photometry from five widely separated fields with otherstudies from the literature to create a galaxy counts sample that is highlycomplete and has good counting statistics out to JHKs ~ 27-28. As part of thiseffort we present new ultradeep Ks-band galaxy counts from 22 hours ofobservations with the Multi Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS)instrument on the Subaru Telescope. We use this MOIRCS Ks-band mosaic toestimate the total missing flux from sources beyond our detection limits. Ournew limits to the NIR EBL are in basic agreement with, but 10 - 20% higher thanprevious estimates, bringing them into better agreement with estimates of thetotal NIR EBL (resolved + unresolved sources) obtained from TeV gamma-rayopacity measurements and recent direct measurements of the total NIR EBL. Weexamine field to field variations in our photometry to show that the integratedlight from galaxies is isotropic to within uncertainties, consistent with theexpected large-scale isotropy of the EBL. Our data also allow for a robustestimate of the NIR light from Galactic stars, which we find to be 14.7 +/- 2.4in J, 10.1 +/- 1.9 in H and 7.6 +/- 1.8 in Ks in units of nW m-2 sr-1.

The Resolved Near-Infrared Extragalactic Background