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The extragalactic background light (EBL) in the IR to UV bands partly absorbs very high energy (VHE, $E \geq$ 100GeV) $\gamma-$ray photons travelling over cosmological distances via pair production. In this paper, to get stronger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Longhua Qin , Jiancheng Wang , Quangui Gao , Weiwei Na , Huaizhen Li , Ao Wang , Chuyuan Yang , Jianping Yang

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) can be probed via the absorption imprint it leaves in the spectra of gamma-ray sources ($\gamma\gamma \rightarrow e^-e^+$). We recently developed a dedicated technique to reconstruct the EBL, and its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 Abhishek Desai , Kári Helgason , Marco Ajello , Vaidehi Paliya , Alberto Domínguez , Justin Finke , Dieter H. Hartmann

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

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

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

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the aggregate of all optical and infrared emissions from thermal processes since the cosmic dark ages. While the integrated light of galaxies is expected to be the main contribution to the EBL,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-04 Lucas Gréaux , Jonathan Biteau

The extragalactic background light (EBL) contains all the radiation emitted by nuclear and accretion processes in stars and compact objects since the epoch of recombination. Measuring the EBL density directly is challenging, especially in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Mateo Fernandez Alonso

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

Aims: We derive limits on the EBL density from the energy spectra of distant sources of very high energetic gamma-rays (VHE gamma-rays). Methods: VHE gamma-rays are attenuated by the photons of the EBL via pair production, which leaves an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Mazin , Martin Raue

The very high energy (VHE) gamma ray spectral index of high energy peaked blazars correlates strongly with its corresponding redshift whereas no such correlation is observed in the X-ray or the GeV bands. We attribute this correlation to a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Atreyee Sinha , Sunder Sahayanathan , Ranjeev Misra , Sagar Godambe , B. S. Acharya

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

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 2010-01-04 Massimo Persic , Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Fabrizio Tavecchio

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

We propose a method for setting upper limits to the extragalactic background light (EBL). Our method uses simultaneous {\em Fermi}-LAT and ground-based TeV observations of blazars and is based on the assumption that the intrinsic spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Markos Georganopoulos , Justin D. Finke , Luis C. Reyes

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) is the accumulated light emitted throughout the history of the universe, spanning the UV, optical, and IR spectral ranges. Stars and dust in galaxies are expected to be the main source of the EBL.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 R. Grau , A. Moralejo

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 intrinsic BL Lac spectra above few hundreds GeV can be very different from the observed ones due to the absorption effects by the diffuse Extragalactic Background Light (EBL), at present poorly known. With the recent results, there are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Costamante , F. Aharonian , D. Horns , G. Ghisellini

The direct measurement of the extragalactic background light (EBL) is difficult at optical to infrared wavelengths because of the strong foreground radiation originating in the Solar System. Very high energy (VHE, E$>$100 GeV) gamma rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 M. Schroedter

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

Direct measurements of the extragalactic background light (EBL) in the near-IR to mid-IR waveband are extremely difficult due to an overwhelming foreground from the zodiacal light that outshines the faint cosmological diffuse radiation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Matthew Orr , Frank Krennrich , Eli Dwek
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