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The flux of extragalactic gamma rays is attenuated through interactions with optical and infrared photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL). The EBL is an isotropic, diffuse photon field that is difficult to measure directly at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Sara Porras-Bedmar , Manuel Meyer

The diffuse extragalactic background light (EBL) is formed by ultraviolet (UV), optical, and infrared (IR) photons mainly produced by star formation processes over the history of the Universe, and contains essential information about galaxy…

The extragalactic background light (EBL), from ultraviolet to infrared wavelengths, is predominantly due to emission from stars, accreting black holes and reprocessed light due to Galactic dust. The EBL can be studied through the imprint it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Abhishek Desai , Marco Ajello , Nicola Omodei , Dieter Hartmann , Alberto Dominguez , Vaidehi Paliya , Kari Helgason , Justin Finke , Manuel Meyer

We study the contribution of the first galaxies to the far-infrared/sub-millimeter (FIR/sub-mm) extragalactic background light (EBL) by implementing an analytical model for dust emission. We explore different dust models, assuming different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-28 Maria Emilia De Rossi , Volker Bromm

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

Deep optical and near-infrared galaxy counts are utilized to estimate the extragalactic background light (EBL) coming from normal galactic light in the universe. Although the slope of number-magnitude relation of the faintest counts is flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 T. Totani , Y. Yoshii , F. Iwamuro , T. Maihara , K. Motohara

At any given epoch, the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) carries imprints of integrated star formation activities in the universe till that epoch. On the other hand, in order to estimate the EBL, when direct observations are not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-13 Vikram Khaire , Raghunathan Srianand

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 extragalactic background light (EBL) is the cumulative radiation outside the Milky Way. The determination of its corresponding primary emitting sources as well as its total energy level across the entire electromagnetic spectrum has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-27 Qi-Ning Hsu , L. L. Cowie , Chian-Chou Chen , A. J. Barger

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) at UV, optical and NIR wavelengths consists of the integrated light of all unresolved galaxies along the line of sight plus any contributions by intergalactic matter including hypothetical decaying…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Kalevi Mattila , Kimmo Lehtinen , Petri Vaisanen , Gerhard von Appen-Schnur , Christoph Leinert

(Abridged) We have used HST WFPC2 and ground-based spectroscopy to measure the integrated extragalactic background light (EBL) at optical wavelengths. We have also computed the integrated light from individual galaxy counts in the images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Bernstein , W. L. Freedman , B. F. Madore

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 present predictions for the UV-to-mm extragalactic background light (EBL) from a recent version of the GALFORM semi-analytical model of galaxy formation which invokes a top-heavy stellar initial mass function (IMF) for galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 William. I. Cowley , Cedric G. Lacey , Carlton M. Baugh , Shaun Cole , Carlos S. Frenk , Claudia del P. Lagos

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

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

Several models which have been constructed to explain the faint galaxy excess in observed number counts are used to predict the intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Special attention is given to irregular and dwarf…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Petri Vaisanen

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 present a new model of the extragalactic background light (EBL) and corresponding gamma-gamma opacity for intergalactic gamma-ray absorption from z = 0 up to z = 10, based on a semi-analytical model of hierarchical galaxy formation that…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Susumu Inoue , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Ryu Makiya , Yuu Niino , Tomonori Totani

Indirect constraints on the intensity of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) were provided by recent studies of extragalactic sources emitting sub-TeV to multi-TeV photons. These constraints are provided thanks to the absorption of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 F. Krennrich

The optical/far-IR extragalactic background light (EBL) from both resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources is an indicator of the total luminosity of cosmic structures, as the cumulative emission from young and evolved galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piero Madau , Francesco Haardt , Lucia Pozzetti