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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

Foreground emission and scattered light from interplanetary dust (IPD) particles and emission from Galactic stellar sources are the greatest obstacles for determining the cosmic infrared background (CIB) from diffuse sky measurements in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Dwek , R. G. Arendt

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) 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

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

We discuss the ultraviolet to near-IR galaxy counts from the deepest imaging surveys, including the northern and southern Hubble Deep Fields. The logarithmic slope of the galaxy number-magnitude relation is flatter than 0.4 in all seven…

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

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

Foreground emission and scattered light from interplanetary dust (IPD) particles and emission from Galactic stellar sources are the greatest obstacles for determining the cosmic infrared background (CIB) from diffuse sky measurements in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 E. Dwek , R. G. Arendt

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

We extend our previous model-independent determination of the intergalactic background light (IBL), based purely on galaxy survey data, out to a wavelength of 5 microns. Our approach enables us to constrain the range of photon densities,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Sean T. Scully , Matthew A. Malkan , Floyd W. Stecker

We assess the constraints imposed by the observed extragalactic background light (EBL) on the cosmic history of star formation and the stellar mass density today. The logarithmic slope of the galaxy number-magnitude relation from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Piero Madau , Lucia Pozzetti

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

The first measurement of the diffuse background spectrum at 0.8-1.7 $\mu \rm{m}$ from the CIBER experiment has revealed a significant excess of the cosmic infrared background (CIB) radiation compared to the theoretically expected spectrum.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-04 Oleg E. Kalashev , Alexander Kusenko , Edoardo Vitagliano

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) 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 attenuation of high-energy gamma-ray spectrum due to the electron-positron pair production against the extragalactic background light (EBL) provides an indirect method to measure the EBL of the universe. We use the measurements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Yan Gong , Asantha Cooray

The DIRBE on the COBE spacecraft was designed primarily to conduct systematic search for an isotropic CIB in ten photometric bands from 1.25 to 240 microns. The results of that search are presented here. Conservative limits on the CIB are…

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

The cosmic infrared background (CIB) radiation was a long-sought fossil of energetic processes associated with structure formation and chemical evolution since the Big Bang. The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment (DIRBE) and Far…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Hauser

We investigate the potential of CO rotational lines at redshifts $z\sim 0-6$ being an appreciable source of extragalactic foreground anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background. Motivated by previous investigations, we specifically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Nickolas Kokron , José Luis Bernal , Jo Dunkley