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Constraining Extragalactic Background Light From TeV Blazars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2015-05-19 v1

Abstract

Our goal is to research the upper limits on the extragalactic background light (EBL). The upper limits on the extragalactic background light (EBL), using the Fermi and very high energy (VHE) spectra recently observed in TeV blazars, are presented. We use an assumption that the VHE intrinsic photon index cannot be harder than the Fermi index measured by the Fermi-LAT. Totally, these upper limits on the EBL are compatible with ones given by most of EBL models. However, the models of high EBL density are denied by TeV blazars.

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@article{arxiv.1006.4897,
  title  = {Constraining Extragalactic Background Light From TeV Blazars},
  author = {Jianping Yang and Jiancheng Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4897},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 figures, accepted by A&A

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