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The intensity of the extragalactic background (EBL), the accumulated optical and infrared emissions since the first stars, is the subject of a decades-long tension in the optical band. These photons form a target field that attenuates the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-10 Lucas Gréaux , Jonathan Biteau , Mireia Nievas Rosillo

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 very high energy (VHE) gamma ray spectral index of high energy peaked blazars correlates strongly with its corresponding redshift whereas no such correlation is observed in the X-ray or the GeV bands. We attribute this correlation to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Atreyee Sinha , Sunder Sahayanathan , Ranjeev Misra , Sagar Godambe , B. S. Acharya

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

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) stands for the mean surface brightness of the sky as we would see it from a representative vantage point in the intergalactic space outside of our Milky Way Galaxy. Averaged over the whole 4 pi solid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-23 Kalevi Mattila , Petri Väisänen

TeV gamma rays from distant astrophysical sources are attenuated due to electron-positron pair creation by interacting with ultraviolet/optical to infrared photons which fill the universe and are collectively known as the extra-galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Soebur Razzaque , Charles D. Dermer , Justin D. Finke

Cumulative optical and infrared emission from galaxies accumulated over cosmological time scales, the extragalactic background light (EBL), could be probed by complementary techniques of direct observations and source counting in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Korochkin , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz

Very high energy (VHE, energy >~ 100 GeV) {\gamma}-rays undergo pair production with photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Thus, the intrinsic {\gamma}-ray flux of cosmological sources is attenuated and the Universe should be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-01-11 Manuel Meyer , Dieter Horns , Martin Raue

The extragalactic background light (EBL), the cumulative radiation from all extragalactic sources, traces galaxy formation and cosmic evolution. High-energy $\gamma$ rays attenuated via pair production with EBL photons are a powerful probe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-13 J. Baxter , A. Dominguez , J. D. Finke , A. Desai , M. Ajello , A. Banerjee , Dieter Hartmann , Vaidehi S. Paliya

The attenuation produced by extragalactic background light (EBL) in $\gamma$-ray spectra of blazars has been used to constrain the Hubble constant ($H_0$) and matter density ($\Omega_{\rm m}$) of the Universe. We propose to estimate $H_0$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Houdun Zeng , Dahai Yan

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) that spans the UV-IR band originates from direct and dust-reprocessed starlight integrated over the history of the Universe. EBL measurements are very challenging due to foreground emission like the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-21 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Massimo Persic , Alberto Franceschini

When very high-energy photons (VHE, E>100 GeV) propagate over cosmological distances, they interact with background light by pair production. Observations of spectral features in the VHE band of extragalactic sources related to this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Matthias Lorentz , Pierre Brun , David Sanchez

The extragalactic background light (EBL) contains important information about stellar and galaxy evolution. It leaves imprint on the very high energy $\gamma$-ray spectra from sources at cosmological distances due to the process of pair…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-27 Qiang Yuan , Hai-Liang Huang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Hong-Hao Zhang

The intrinsic BL Lac spectra above few hundreds GeV can be very different from the observed ones due to the absorption effects by the diffuse Extragalactic Background Light (EBL), at present poorly known. With the recent results, there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Costamante , F. Aharonian , D. Horns , G. Ghisellini

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…

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the second-most-intense form of cosmic background light (the first being the cosmic microwave background) and contains the redshifted optical radiation, from infra-red to ultraviolet, emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Stephan O'Brien

We combine the recent estimate of the contribution of galaxies to the 3.6 micron intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL) with optical and near-infrared (IR) galaxy counts to set new limits on intrinsic spectra of some of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Krennrich , E. Dwek , A. Imran

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 extragalactic background light (EBL) is all the electromagnetic energy released by resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources since the recombination era. Its intensity and spectral shape provide information about the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Sara Coutiño De León , Alberto Carramiñana Alonso , Daniel Rosa-González

The extragalactic background light (EBL) from the far infrared through the visible and extending into the ultraviolet is thought to be dominated by starlight, either through direct emission or through absorption and reradiation by dust.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-04 Justin D. Finke , Soebur Razzaque , Charles D. Dermer