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In 1998 and 1999 the Whipple Observatory 10 m telescope was used to search for diffuse gamma ray emission from the Galactic Plane. No signifiant evidence of emission was found. Assuming the TeV emission profile matches EGRET observations…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Collaboration has recently released a catalog of 360 sources detected above 50 GeV (2FHL). This catalog was obtained using 80 months of data re-processed with Pass 8, the newest event-level analysis,…

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Diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced in interactions of cosmic rays with gas and ambient photon fields and thus provides us with an indirect measurement of cosmic rays in various locations in the Galaxy. The diffuse gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

We present results of a study of the Galactic hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray background emission performed with the IBIS telescope aboard the INTEGRAL observatory using data obtained over more than 20 years of operations. The study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-30 Roman Krivonos , Ekaterina Shtykovskaya , Sergey Sazonov

We studied the spectral signature of different components of the Diffuse X-ray Background (DXB), including Local Hot Bubble (LHB), Solar Wind Charge Exchange (SWCX), Galactic Halo, and typically unresolved point sources (galaxies and AGN),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-25 Sicong Huang , Nico Cappelluti , Massimiliano Galeazzi , Anjali Gupta , Wenhao Liu , Eugenio Ursino , Tomykkutty J. Velliyedathu

We examine the constraints on the luminosity-dependent density evolution model for the evolution of blazars given the observed spectrum of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB), blazar source-count distribution, and the blazar spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Kevork N. Abazajian , Steve Blanchet , J. Patrick Harding

The first statistically significant detection of the cosmic \gamma-ray horizon (CGRH) that is independent of any extragalactic background light (EBL) model is presented. The CGRH is a fundamental quantity in cosmology. It gives an estimate…

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The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of $\sim ~ 10^{-2}$ MeV cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ sr$^{-1}$ in the 1-30 MeV range, has remained unsettled since its discovery in 1994. We investigate the origin of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-02 Naomi Tsuji , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Hiroki Yoneda , Reshmi Mukherjee , Hirokazu Odaka

The isotropic gamma-ray background (IGRB), measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, is the result of several classes of extragalactic astrophysical sources. Those sources include blazars, start-forming galaxies and radio galaxies. Also,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Ilias Cholis , Iason Krommydas

(Abridged) We present the first detections of the mean flux of the optical extragalactic background light (EBL) at 3000, 5500, and 8000A. Diffuse foreground flux at these wavelengths comes from terrestrial airglow, dust-scattered sunlight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. A. Bernstein , W. L. Freedman , B. F. Madore

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission (DGE) provides a valuable probe for investigating the cosmic ray propagation and interactions within our Galactic environment. Recent observations have demonstrated systematic excesses of DGE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Jiayin He , Houdun Zeng , Yi Zhang , Xiaoyuan Huang , Qiang Yuan

During their propagation through intergalactic space, ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interact with the background radiation fields. These interactions give rise to energetic electron/positron pairs and photons which in turn feed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 Ruo-Yu Liu , Andrew M. Taylor , Xiang-Yu Wang , Felix A. Aharonian

The diffuse cosmic background radiation in the GALEX far ultraviolet (FUV, 1300 \AA\ - 1700 \AA) is deduced to originate only partially in the dust-scattered radiation of FUV-emitting stars: the source of a substantial fraction of the FUV…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Richard Conn Henry , Jayant Murthy , James Overduin , Joshua Tyler

We evaluate the contribution to the Isotropic Gamma-Ray Background (IGRB) coming from Radio Galaxies (RGs), the subclass of radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with the highest misalignment from the line of sight (l.o.s.). Since only a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 A. Circiello , A. McDaniel , M. Di Mauro , C. Karwin , N. Khatiya , M. Ajello , F. Donato , D. Hartmann , A. Strong

It has been suggested that unresolved radio galaxies and radio quasars (sometimes referred to as misaligned active galactic nuclei) could be responsible for a significant fraction of the observed diffuse gamma-ray background. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Alejandro Lopez

We use the GALPROP model for cosmic-ray propagation to obtain a new estimate of the Galactic component of gamma rays, and show that away from the Galactic plane it gives an accurate prediction of the observed EGRET intensities in the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. W. Strong , I. V. Moskalenko , O. Reimer

Gamma rays from TeV blazars have been detected by ground-based experiments for more than two decades. We have collected the most extensive set of archival spectra from these sources in order to constrain the processes affecting gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-26 Jonathan Biteau , David A. Williams

We first obtained the spectrum of the diffuse Galactic light (DGL) at general interstellar space in 1.8-5.3 um wavelength region with the low-resolution prism spectroscopy mode of the AKARI Infra-Red Camera (IRC) NIR channel. The 3.3 um PAH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Kohji Tsumura , Toshio Matsumoto , Shuji Matsuura , Itsuki Sakon , Masahiro Tanaka , Takehiko Wada

The afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is believed to originate from a relativistic blast wave driven into the circumburst medium. Although the afterglow emission from radio up to X-ray frequencies is thought to originate from…

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