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河外背景光的级联

Cascading on extragalactic background light

P. d'Avezac, G. Dubus, B. Giebels

摘要:

在星系际介质中传播的高能伽马射线可以与背景红外光子相互作用产生e+e-对,导致本征伽马射线光谱的吸收。因此,对遥远的耀变体1 ES 1101-232的TeV观测最近被用来确定河外红外背景光密度的上限。所产生的对可以将背景光子向上散射到高能量,这又可以产生对,从而引发级联。这些电子对在河外磁场(EMF)上扩散,级联发射被认为是测量其强度的一种手段。考虑到级联排放,重新考虑了对红外背景和电动势的限制。对叶栅方程进行了数值求解。假设一个幂律的本征谱,所观察到的100 MeV - 100 TeV的光谱被发现作为一个函数的本征谱指数和强度的电动势。级联主要发射100 GeV或以下的能量。观察到的TeV光谱出现软比纯吸收时,级联发射被考虑在内。红外光子背景的上限被发现是强大的。然而,当级联发射对观测到的光谱有显著贡献时,拟合TeV数据所需的本征光谱是困难的。在1 e-8 nG附近的EMF强度导致GLAST带中的特征光谱峰。更高的EMF强度使电子对偏离视线,并且对光谱的级联贡献变得可以忽略不计。

英文摘要:

High-energy gamma-rays propagating in the intergalactic medium can interact with background infrared photons to produce e+e- pairs, resulting in the absorption of the intrinsic gamma-ray spectrum. TeV observations of the distant blazar 1ES 1101-232 were thus recently used to put an upper limit on the infrared extragalactic background light density. The created pairs can upscatter background photons to high energies, which in turn may pair produce, thereby initiating a cascade. The pairs diffuse on the extragalactic magnetic field (EMF) and cascade emission has been suggested as a means for measuring its intensity. Limits on the IR background and EMF are reconsidered taking into account cascade emissions. The cascade equations are solved numerically. Assuming a power-law intrinsic spectrum, the observed 100 MeV - 100 TeV spectrum is found as a function of the intrinsic spectral index and the intensity of the EMF. Cascades emit mainly at or below 100 GeV. The observed TeV spectrum appears softer than for pure absorption when cascade emission is taken into account. The upper limit on the IR photon background is found to be robust. Inversely, the intrinsic spectra needed to fit the TeV data are uncomfortably hard when cascade emission makes a significant contribution to the observed spectrum. An EMF intensity around 1e-8 nG leads to a characteristic spectral hump in the GLAST band. Higher EMF intensities divert the pairs away from the line-of-sight and the cascade contribution to the spectrum becomes negligible.

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