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The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the radiation accumulated through the history of the Universe in the wavelength range from the ultraviolet to the far infrared. Local foregrounds make the direct measurement of the diffuse EBL…

The light emitted by stars and accreting compact objects through the history of the Universe is encoded in the intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Knowledge of the EBL is important to understand the nature of star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-09 LAT Collaboration

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.

Cumulative optical and infrared emission from galaxies accumulated over cosmological time scales, the extragalactic background light (EBL), could be probed by complementary techniques of direct observations and source counting in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-15 A. Korochkin , A. Neronov , D. Semikoz

The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the second-most-intense form of cosmic background light (the first being the cosmic microwave background) and contains the redshifted optical radiation, from infra-red to ultraviolet, emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-02 Stephan O'Brien

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

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

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

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) is the accumulated light produced throughout the universe history, spanning the UV, optical, and IR spectral ranges and mostly originating from stars, directly or re-processed by dust. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-27 R. Grau , A. Moralejo

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) 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 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) from the infrared to the ultraviolet is difficult to measure directly, but can be constrained with a variety of methods. EBL photons absorb gamma-rays from distant blazars, allowing one to use blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Justin D. Finke , Soebur Razzaque

(Abridged) The extragalactic background light (EBL) observed at multiple wavelengths is a promising tool to probe the nature of dark matter since it might contain a significant contribution from gamma-rays produced promptly by dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-30 Jesus Zavala , Mark Vogelsberger , Tracy R. Slatyer , Abraham Loeb , Volker Springel

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) from the infrared (IR) through the ultraviolet (UV) is dominated by emission from stars, either directly or through absorption and reradiation by dust. It can thus give information on the star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Justin D. Finke

Very-high-energy (VHE; E>100GeV) gamma-rays from distant sources suffer attenuation through pair-production with low energy photons from the diffuse extragalactic photon fields in the ultraviolet (UV) to far-infrared (FIR) (commonly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 M. Raue , D. Mazin

We present new synthesis models of the extragalactic background light (EBL) from far infra-red (FIR) to TeV gamma-rays, with an emphasis on the extreme ultraviolet (UV) background which is responsible for the observed ionization and thermal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 Vikram Khaire , Raghunathan Srianand

Motivated by the idea that the recently detected near-infrared (1.2-4 micron) excess over the contribution of known galaxies is due to redshifted light from the first cosmic stars (Salvaterra & Ferrara 2003), we have used the effect caused…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Mapelli , R. Salvaterra , A. Ferrara

In a project aimed at measuring the optical Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) we are using the shadow of a dark cloud.We have performed, with the ESO VLT/FORS, spectrophotometry of the surface brightness towards the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-01 K. Mattila , P. Väisänen , K. Lehtinen , G. von Appen-Schnur , Ch. Leinert