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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

Very high energy (VHE; $E \geq$ 100GeV) $\gamma-$ray from cosmological distances are attenuated by the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the IR to UV band. By contrasting measured versus intrinsic emission, the EBL photon density can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-01 Longhua Qin , Jiancheng Wang , Quangui Gao , Weiwei Na , Huaizhen Li , Ju Ma , Jianping Yang

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

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

In addition to its relevant astrophysical and cosmological significance, the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) is a fundamental source of opacity for cosmic high energy photons, as well as a limitation for the propagation of high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 Alberto Franceschini , Giulia Rodighiero

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

Observations of distant sources of high-energy (HE) gamma-rays are affected by attenuation resulting from the interaction of the gamma-rays with low energy photons from the diffuse meta-galactic radiation fields at ultraviolet (UV) to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-12 Martin Raue

The study of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) is crucial to understand many astrophysical problems (as the formation of first stars, the evolution of galaxies and the role of dust emission). At present, one of the most powerful ways…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Mapelli , R. Salvaterra , A. Ferrara

Observations of distant gamma-ray sources are hindered by the presence of the extragalactic background light (EBL). In order to understand the physical processes that result in the observed spectrum of sources, it is imperative that a good…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-01 Thomas Armstrong , Anthony M. Brown , Paula M. Chadwick

The study of the extragalactic background light (EBL) is undergoing a renaissance. New results from very high energy experiments and deep space missions have broken the deadlock between the contradictory measurements in the optical and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-25 Simon P. Driver

In this chapter, we discuss the contributions of gamma-ray astronomy at TeV energies to our understanding of the visible content and structure of the universe. We start from the present epoch with the second most intense electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-14 Elisa Pueschel , Jonathan Biteau

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) as an integrated light from outside of our Galaxy includes information of the early universe and the Dark Ages. We analyzed the spectral data of the astrophysical diffuse emission obtained with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Kohji Tsumura , Toshio Matsumoto , Shuji Matsuura , Itsuki Sakon , Takehiko Wada

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

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 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 unexpectedly hard very-high-energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) $\gamma$-ray spectra of a few distant blazars have been interpreted as evidence for a reduction of the $\gamma\gamma$ opacity of the Universe due to the interaction of VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-08 Hassan Abdalla , Markus Boettcher

Very high energy (VHE, E >100 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 2019-08-14 Daniel Mazin , Martin Raue , Bagmeet Behera , Susumu Inoue , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Takeshi Nakamori , Tomonori Totani

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

Interactions between the extragalactic background light (EBL) and very high energy {\gamma} rays (VHE; E > 10 GeV) from cosmological sources alter their {\gamma}-ray spectrum. The stronger absorption of harder {\gamma} rays causes a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-21 A. M. Kudoda , A. Faltenbacher

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