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ORIGIN OF THE HIGH ENERGY EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE GAMMA RAY BACKGROUND

Astrophysics 2016-08-30 v1

Abstract

We show that cosmic rays in external galaxies, groups and clusters rich in gas, with an average flux similar to that observed in the Milky Way, could have produced the observed extragalactic diffuse gamma radiation.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9501079,
  title  = {ORIGIN OF THE HIGH ENERGY EXTRAGALACTIC DIFFUSE GAMMA RAY BACKGROUND},
  author = {Arnon Dar and Nir J. Shaviv},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9501079},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages, latex, 1 faxable figure available upon request from shaviv@tx.technion.ac.il. Submitted to Phys Rev Lett.

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