Cosmic Star Formation Rate From Gamma-Ray Attenuation
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We compute the attenuation of gamma-rays from remote quasars due to interactions with ambient low-energy photons produced by stars in galaxies and show that the next-generation gamma ray telescopes can probe the cosmic star formation rate at high redshifts.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912450,
title = {Cosmic Star Formation Rate From Gamma-Ray Attenuation},
author = {T. M. Kneiske and K. Mannheim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912450},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 7 figures, to appear in Proc. of 33rd ESLAB Symp. (ESA SP-445, 2000)