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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

The extragalactic background Light (EBL) from ultraviolet to infrared comprises the emission from all stars, galaxies, and actively accreting black holes in the observable Universe. A precise measurement of the EBL is critically important…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-13 Anuvab Banerjee , Justin D. Finke , Marco Ajello , Alberto Domínguez , Abhishek Desai , Joshua Baxter , Dieter Hartmann , Vaidehi S. Paliya

Very high energy (~ TeV) $\gamma$-rays from blazars are attenuated by photons from the extragalactic background light (EBL). Observations of blazars can therefore provide an ideal opportunity for determining the EBL intensity if their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Dwek , Frank Krennrich

The cosmic infrared background (CIRB) consists mainly of the integrated light of distant galaxies. In the far-infrared the current estimates of its surface brightness are based on the measurements of the COBE satellite. Independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Juvela , K. Mattila , D. Lemke , U. Klaas , C. Leinert , Cs. Kiss

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

The extragalactic background light (EBL) from the infrared to the ultraviolet is difficult to measure directly, but can be constrained with a variety of methods. EBL photons absorb gamma-rays from distant blazars, allowing one to use blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Justin D. Finke , Soebur Razzaque

Very high energy (VHE, energy $E \gtrsim 100$\,GeV) \gamma-rays from cosmological sources are attenuated due to the interaction with photons of the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the ultraviolet to infrared wavelength band. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 Manuel Meyer , Martin Raue , Daniel Mazin , Dieter Horns

We present Near-Infrared (NIR) ground-based Y, J, H, and K imaging obtained in the James Webb Space Telescope North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field (TDF) using the MMT-Magellan Infrared Imager and Spectrometer (MMIRS) on the MMT.These new…

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) 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…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Alberto Domínguez

(Abridged) We present the first detections of the mean flux of the optical extragalactic background light (EBL) at 3000, 5500, and 8000A. Diffuse foreground flux at these wavelengths comes from terrestrial airglow, dust-scattered sunlight…

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

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 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 Cosmic InfraRed Background (CIRB) is the sum total of the redshifted and reprocessed short wavelength radiation from the era of galaxy formation, and hence contains vital information about the history of galactic evolution. One of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Gorjian , E. L. Wright , R. R. Chary

We present results of a measurement of the near infrared Extragalactic Background Light using the dark-cloud method. Long-slit spectra covering the opaque core of the intermediate--latitude globule DC303.8-14.2 and the almost unobscured off…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Lauri K. Haikala , Kalevi Mattila , Petri Väisänen

The extragalactic background light (EBL) contains all the radiation emitted by nuclear and accretion processes since the epoch of recombination. Direct measurements of the EBL in the near-IR to mid-IR waveband are extremely difficult due…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Fernandez Alonso , M.

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

... A strict lower-limit flux for the evolving extragalactic background light (and in particular the cosmic infrared background) has been calculated up to redshift of 5. The computed flux is below the existing upper limits from direct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tanja M. Kneiske , Herve Dole