The origin of the Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray background
Abstract
The origin of the Isotropic Diffuse -Ray Background (IGRB) is one of the most intriguing mystery in astrophysics. Recently the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has measured the IGRB spectrum from 100 MeV to 820 GeV. Thousands of extragalactic sources are detected at -ray energies and, thanks to Fermi-LAT catalogs and to population studies, we show that the IGRB can be explained, in the entire energy range, by the -ray emission from unresolved misaligned Active Galactic Nuclei, blazars and Star Forming Galaxies. Finally we derive, with a dedicated analysis based on the 2FHL Fermi-LAT catalog at GeV, the intrinsic source count distribution of blazars and demonstrate that this source population explains the of the total extragalactic -ray background.
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@article{arxiv.1601.04323,
title = {The origin of the Fermi-LAT $\gamma$-ray background},
author = {Mattia Di Mauro},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.04323},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, Proceeding of the MG14 conference, July 2015, Rome