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It has been suggested that non-relativistic outflows from quasars can naturally account for the missing component of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background and explain the cumulative neutrino background through pion decay in collisions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb

The origin of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background (EGB) has been debated for some time. { The EGB comprises the $\gamma$-ray emission from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources, such as blazars, star-forming galaxies and radio…

Quasar-driven outflows naturally account for the missing component of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray background through neutral pion production in interactions between protons accelerated by the forward outflow shock and interstellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb

The diffuse extragalactic background light consists of the sum of the starlight emitted by galaxies through the history of the Universe, and it could also have an important contribution from the first stars, which may have formed before…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian

The universe is filled with a diffuse and isotropic extragalactic background of gamma-ray radiation, containing roughly equal energy flux per decade in photon energy between 3 MeV-100 GeV. The origin of this background is one of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Abraham Loeb , Eli Waxman

We compute the contribution of blazars (Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars and BL-Lacs) to the Fermi-LAT Extragalactic gamma-ray Background, assuming a gamma-ray luminosity function proportional to the luminosity function of radio galaxies and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-01 Massimo Cavadini , Ruben Salvaterra , Francesco Haardt

The COMPTEL and EGRET detectors aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory measured an extragalactic gamma-ray background extending from MeV energies up to about 100 GeV. Calculations performed making reasonable assumptions indicate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. W. Stecker , M. H. Salamon

In the paper, we continually use the method of image stacking to study the origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) at GeV bands, and find that the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters (FIRST) sources undetected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ming Zhou , Jiancheng Wang

We present new theoretical estimates of the relative contributions of unresolved blazars and star-forming galaxies to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) and discuss constraints on the contributions from alternative mechanisms such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Floyd W. Stecker , Tonia M. Venters

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) is still an open question, even after nearly forty years of its discovery. The emission could originate from either truly diffuse processes or from unresolved point sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-09 D. Bhattacharya , P. Sreekumar , R. Mukherjee

The global contribution of unresolved gamma-ray point sources to the extragalactic gamma-ray background has been recently measured down to gamma-ray fluxes lower than those reached with standard source detection techniques, and by employing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Silvia Manconi , Michael Korsmeier , Fiorenza Donato , Nicolao Fornengo , Marco Regis , Hannes Zechlin

The gamma-ray background is still a subject under great debate. All phenomena in the universe emitting gamma-rays can contribute directly as diffuse emission or as an isotropic component from unresolved point sources. The question of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-29 Tanja M. Kneiske

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background is a pressing cosmological mystery. The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recently measured the intensity and spectrum of this background; both are substantially different from previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Brian D. Fields , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Tijana Prodanovic

We present a two-parameter model of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) in the 0.1-100 GeV range as measured by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite. The EGB can be fully explained as the sum of three distinct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 Massimo Cavadini , Ruben Salvaterra , Francesco Haardt

The origin of the Isotropic Diffuse $\gamma$-Ray Background (IGRB) is one of the most intriguing mystery in astrophysics. Recently the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has measured the IGRB spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Mattia Di Mauro

Cosmic ray protons generate gamma-rays, neutrinos, and secondary electrons and positrons (e+/-) through pion-producing collisions with gas atoms. Any synchrotron or Inverse Compton (IC) radiation from secondary e+/- is therefore accompanied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Brian C. Lacki

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) radiation has been a mystery in astrophysics for a long time. Recently the Fermi gamma-ray satellite (Fermi) has revealed that ~22% of the unresolved EGRB would be explained by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Yoshiyuki Inoue

Origin of extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) is still a matter of debate. EGRB can either have truly diffuse or unresolved discrete point sources origin. Majority of the Fermi and EGRET detected identified sources are blazar. So,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , M. Errando , R. Mukherjee , M. Boettcher , P. Sreekumar , R. Misra , P. Coppi

The diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB) above 100 MeV encodes unique information about high-energy processes in the universe. Numerous sources for the EGRB have been proposed, but the two systems which are certain to make some…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vasiliki Pavlidou , Brian D. Fields

The Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory discovered about a thousand extragalactic sources emitting energy from 100 MeV to 100 GeV. The majority of these sources belong to the class of blazars characterized by a quasi-featureless optical spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Marco Landoni , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa
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