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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 extragalactic background light (EBL) is of fundamental importance both for understanding the entire process of galaxy evolution and for gamma-ray astronomy, but the overall spectrum of the EBL between 0.1-1000 microns has never been…

The unexpectedly hard spectra measured by HESS for the BLLacs 1ES 1101-232 and H 2356-309 has allowed an upper limit on the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) to be derived in the optical/near-infrared range, which is very close to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Costamante

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) is the main radiation field responsible for attenuating extragalactic gamma-ray emission at very high energies, but its precise spectral intensity is not fully determined. Therefore, disentangling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-21 M. Genaro , L. A. Stuani Pereira , D. R. de Matos Pimentel , E. Moura Santos

High-energy photons from cosmological emitters suffer attenuation due to pair production interactions with the extragalactic background light (EBL). The collective emission of any high-energy emitting cosmological population will exhibit an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Tonia M. Venters , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Luis C. Reyes

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

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

Gamma rays with energy above 10 GeV interact with optical-UV photons resulting in pair production. Therefore, a large sample of high redshift sources of these gamma rays can be used to probe the extragalactic background starlight (EBL) by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrew Chen , Luis C. Reyes , Steven Ritz

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

The very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray spectral indices of blazars show strong correlation with the source redshift. Absence of any such correlation in low energy gamma rays and X-rays indicate the presence of Extragalactic Background Light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-23 Malik Zahoor , Sunder Sahayanathan , Shah Zahir , Naseer Iqbal , Aaqib Manzoor , Nilay Bhatt

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

Gamma-rays propagating through space are likely to be extinguished via electron-positron pair production off of the ambient extragalactic background light (EBL). The spectrum of the EBL is produced by starlight (and starlight reprocessed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-11 Rebecca Reesman , T. P. Walker

In this work, we use two different methods to determine the opacity of the TeV gamma-rays caused by the extragalactic background light (EBL) via e-e+ production due to photon-photon interaction. The first method, Model-Dependent Approach,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-07 K. K. Singh , P. J. Meintjes

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is all the electromagnetic energy released by resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources since the recombination era. Its intensity and spectral shape provide information about the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Sara Coutiño De León , Alberto Carramiñana Alonso , Daniel Rosa-González

The vast majority of extragalactic sources detected in the very high energy (E> 100 GeV) domaine are active galactic nuclei (AGN) located at cosmological distances. During their travel towards Earth, the emitted gamma-rays suffer from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Romoli , D. A. Sanchez , M. Lorentz , P. Brun

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

Energy spectra of gamma-ray blazars may contain an imprint from the cosmic infrared background radiation due to gamma-ray absorption (pair-production) by soft photons constituting the extragalactic background light (EBL). The signature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 F. Krennrich , E. Dwek

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

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

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) is the integrated light from all the stars that have ever formed, and spans the IR-UV range. The interaction of very-high-energy (VHE: E>100 GeV) gamma-rays, emitted by sources located at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Massimo Persic , Fabrizio Tavecchio