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BL Lac对河外Gamma-Ray背景的贡献

BL Lac Contribution to the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background

Tanja M. Kneiske, Karl Mannheim

摘要:

来自耀变体的极高能量伽马射线穿过元银河系辐射场时,在光子-光子碰撞中可以转化为电子-正电子对。转换后的伽马射线引发了由微波背景光子的逆康普顿散射驱动的电磁级联。使用与所有目前可用的远红外光学数据一致的随时间变化的元银河系辐射场模型,我们计算了微弱的,未解决的高,低峰耀变体的级联贡献的河外伽玛射线背景EGRET测量。对于低峰耀变体,我们采用与EGRET探测到的耀变体的平均光谱指数一致的光谱指数,以及Chiang和Mukherjee(1998)确定的光度函数。对于高峰耀变体,我们采用模板光谱匹配原型源观察到的空气切伦科夫望远镜高达30 TeV,和基于X射线测量的光度函数。从光度函数中推断出,对于附近的高峰值耀变体,在300 GeV以上,其通量超过10^-11 cm^-2 s^-1,其数值较低,约为20,这与空气切伦科夫望远镜的观测结果一致。包括级联发射从更高的红移,总的高峰值blazar观测到的伽玛射线背景的贡献,在GeV的能量可以占约30。

英文摘要:

Very high energy gamma-rays from blazars traversing cosmological distances through the metagalactic radiation field can convert into electron-positron pairs in photon-photon collisions. The converted gamma-rays initiate electromagnetic cascades driven by inverse-Compton scattering off the microwave background photons. Using a model for the time-dependent metagalactic radiation field consistent with all currently available far-infrared-to-optical data, we calculate the cascade contribution from faint, unresolved high- and low-peaked blazars to the extragalactic gamma-ray background as measured by EGRET. For low-peaked blazars, we adopt a spectral index consistent with the mean spectral index of EGRET detected blazars, and the luminosity function determined by Chiang and Mukherjee (1998). For high-peaked blazars, we adopt template spectra matching prototype sources observed with air-Cherenkov telescopes up to 30 TeV, and a luminosity function based on X-ray measurements. The low number of about 20 for nearby high-peaked blazars with a flux exceeding 10^-11 cm^-2 s^-1 above 300 GeV inferred from the luminosity function is consistent with the results from air-Cherenkov telescope observations. Including the cascade emission from higher redshifts, the total high-peaked blazar contribution to the observed gamma-ray background at GeV energies can account up to about 30.

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