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The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) can be probed via the absorption imprint it leaves in the spectra of gamma-ray sources ($\gamma\gamma \rightarrow e^-e^+$). We recently developed a dedicated technique to reconstruct the EBL, and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Abhishek Desai , Kári Helgason , Marco Ajello , Vaidehi Paliya , Alberto Domínguez , Justin Finke , Dieter H. Hartmann

Recent observations of blazars at high energy (HE, 0.1-100 GeV) and very high energy (VHE, >0.1 TeV) have provided important constraints on the intensity and spectrum of the diffuse Extragalactic Background Light (EBL), shedding light on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-04 Luigi Costamante

The diffuse meta-galactic radiation field at ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths - commonly labeled extragalactic background light (EBL) - contains the integrated emission history of the universe. Difficult to access via direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Martin Raue , Daniel Mazin

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the radiation accumulated through the history of the Universe in the wavelength range from the ultraviolet to the far infrared. Local foregrounds make the direct measurement of the diffuse EBL…

The extragalactic background light (EBL) contains all the radiation emitted by nuclear and accretion processes in stars and compact objects since the epoch of recombination. Measuring the EBL density directly is challenging, especially in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Mateo Fernandez Alonso

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is one of the fundamental observational quantities in cosmology. All energy releases from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources, and the light from any truly diffuse background, excluding the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Eli Dwek , Frank Krennrich

Ground-based observatories have been collecting 0.2 - 20 TeV gamma rays from blazars for about twenty years. These gamma rays can experience absorption along the line of sight due to interactions with the extragalactic background light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-14 Jonathan Biteau , David A. Williams

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) includes photons with wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared, which are effective at attenuating gamma rays with energy above ~10 GeV during propagation from sources at cosmological distances. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 The Fermi LAT , the GBM Collaboration , : , A. A. Abdo

Data from (non-) attenuation of gamma rays from active galactic nuclei (AGN) and gamma ray bursts (GRBs) give upper limits on the extragalactic background light (EBL) from the UV to the mid-IR that are only a little above the lower limits…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joel R. Primack , Alberto Dominguez , Rudy C. Gilmore , Rachel S. Somerville

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Jianping Yang , Jiancheng Wang

Very high energy (VHE, E > 30 GeV) gamma-rays are absorbed via interaction with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background light (EBL) if the involved photon energies are above the threshold for electron-positron pair creation.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Mazin

Extragalactic background light (EBL) plays an important role in cosmology since it traces the history of galaxy formation and evolution. Such diffuse radiation from near-UV to far-infrared wavelengths can interact with $\gamma$-rays from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 B. Biasuzzi , O. Hervet , D. A. Williams , J. Biteau

High-energy photons from cosmological emitters suffer attenuation due to pair production interactions with the extragalactic background light (EBL). The collective emission of any high-energy emitting cosmological population will exhibit an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Tonia M. Venters , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Luis C. Reyes

Context. Measurements of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) are a fundamental source of information on the collective emission of cosmic sources. Aims. At infrared wavelengths, however, these measurements are precluded by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 A. Franceschini , L. Foffano , E. Prandini , F. Tavecchio

The diffuse meta-galactic radiation field at ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths - commonly labeled extragalactic background light (EBL) - contains the integrated emission history of the universe. Difficult to access via direct observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Raue , Daniel Mazin

In this work, we use two different methods to determine the opacity of the TeV gamma-rays caused by the extragalactic background light (EBL) via e-e+ production due to photon-photon interaction. The first method, Model-Dependent Approach,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-07 K. K. Singh , P. J. Meintjes

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is of fundamental importance both for understanding the entire process of galaxy evolution and for gamma-ray astronomy. However, the overall spectrum of the EBL between 0.1 and 1000 microns has never…

We consider the ensemble of very-high-energy gamma-ray sources observed at distances and energies where a significant absorption of gamma rays is expected due to pair production on the extragalactic background light (EBL). Previous studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 Alexander Korochkin , Grigory Rubtsov , Sergey Troitsky

Gamma-rays propagating through space are likely to be extinguished via electron-positron pair production off of the ambient extragalactic background light (EBL). The spectrum of the EBL is produced by starlight (and starlight reprocessed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-11 Rebecca Reesman , T. P. Walker

Direct measurements of the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the near-IR to mid-IR waveband are extremely difficult due to an overwhelming foreground from the zodiacal light that outshines the faint cosmological diffuse radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Matthew Orr , Frank Krennrich , Eli Dwek