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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 large majority of EGRET point sources remain without an identified low-energy counterpart, and a large fraction of these sources are most likely extragalactic. Whatever the nature of the extragalactic EGRET unidentified sources, faint…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 V. Pavlidou , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , B. D. Fields , A. V. Olinto , C. Brown

We studied the problematic of uncertainties in the diffuse gamma radiation apparent in stacking analysis of EGRET data at low Galactic latitudes. Subsequently, we co-added maps of counts, exposure and diffuse background, and residuals, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Analia N. Cillis , Olaf Reimer , Diego F. Torres

In the course of its operation, the EGRET experiment detected high-energy gamma ray sources at energies above 100 MeV over the whole sky. In this communication, we search for large-scale anisotropy patterns among the catalogued EGRET…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luis Anchordoqui , Thomas McCauley , Thomas Paul , Olaf Reimer , Diego F. Torres

Recent radio surveys have discovered a large number of low luminosity core dominated radio galaxies that are much more abundant than those at higher luminosities. These objects will be too faint in gamma-rays to be detected individually by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-17 Floyd W. Stecker , Chris R. Shrader , Matthew. A. Malkan

Context. Measurements of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) are a fundamental source of information on the collective emission of cosmic sources. Aims. At infrared wavelengths, however, these measurements are precluded by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 A. Franceschini , L. Foffano , E. Prandini , F. Tavecchio

We review the current understanding of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB). The DGRB is what remains of the total measured gamma-ray emission after the subtraction of the resolved sources and of the diffuse Galactic foregrounds. It is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-28 Mattia Fornasa , Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde

Measurements of the cross-correlation between the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) and large-scale structure provide a novel probe of dark matter on extragalactic scales. We focus on luminous red galaxies (LRGs) as optimal targets…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-06 Masato Shirasaki , Shunsaku Horiuchi , Naoki Yoshida

We present results of a study of the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) in hard X-rays with the IBIS telescope on board INTEGRAL in the region near the Galactic Anticenter (GA) at l=155 deg. We assumed a conservative 2 sigma upper limit…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-01-18 R. Krivonos , S. Tsygankov , M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

Indirect constraints on the intensity of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) were provided by recent studies of extragalactic sources emitting sub-TeV to multi-TeV photons. These constraints are provided thanks to the absorption of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 F. Krennrich

The all-sky surveys in gamma-rays by the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory for the first time allows detailed studies of the extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Sreekumar , F. W. Stecker , S. C. Kappadath

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 Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) collaboration has recently reported on 50 months of measurements of the isotropic Extragalactic Gamma Ray Background (EGRB) spectrum between $100\mbox{MeV}$ and $820\mbox{GeV}$. Ultrahigh Energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Eyal Gavish , David Eichler

The large majority of EGRET point sources remain to this day without an identified low-energy counterpart. Whatever the nature of the EGRET unidentified sources, faint unresolved objects of the same class must have a contribution to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Pavlidou , J. M. Siegal-Gaskins , C. Brown , B. D. Fields , A. V. Olinto

Very high energy photons from cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are expected to interact with extragalactic background light (EBL) and produce electron-positron pairs when they propagate through intergalactic medium (IGM). These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Ze-Rui Wang , Shao-Qiang Xi , Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Xue , Xiang-Yu Wang

Analyses of measurements of the distribution of absolute brightness temperature over the radio sky have led recently to suggestions that there exists a substantial unexplained extragalactic radio background. Consequently, there have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ravi Subrahmanyan , Ramanath Cowsik

(Abridged) We use a hydrodynamic simulation of a LambdaCDM model to predict the extragalactic X-ray background (XRB), focussing on emission from the intergalactic medium (IGM). We also include X-rays from point sources associated with…

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

The diffuse Galactic gamma-ray emission is produced by cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with the interstellar gas and radiation field. Measurements by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-23 LAT Collaboration

Blazars represent the most abundant class of high-energy extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. The subset of blazars known as BL Lac objects is on average closer to Earth and characterized by harder spectra at high energy than the whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-26 M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , G. Lamanna , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico