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恒星光子和Blazar考古与伽玛射线

Stellar Photon and Blazar Archaeology with Gamma-rays

Floyd W. Stecker

摘要:

对星系光度函数、光谱能量分布和恒星形成率的后向演化模型的持续深入调查可用于计算星系间光子密度的过去历史,并由此计算宇宙现在和过去的光学深度。这一过程可以通过寻找尖锐的截止点在河外伽玛射线源的光谱在高红移在多GeV的能量范围与GLAST。确定具有已知红移和几乎没有内在吸收的源的截止能量可以更精确地确定过去的星系际光子密度,从而更好地确定过去的总恒星形成率的历史,包括来自太暗而无法观察的星系的恒星形成率。相反,在红移未知的耀变体伽马射线光谱中观察到的尖锐高能截止可以代替谱线来测量它们的红移。此外,给定光子密度的知识,人们可以推导出耀变体在一定红移范围内的固有伽马射线光谱和光度,并寻找耀变体演化的可能趋势。我提出了一些证据,暗示光谱较平坦的TeV耀变体具有更高的固有TeV伽马射线光度,并且平坦度和光度可能与红移相关。(节略)

英文摘要:

Ongoing deep surveys of galaxy luminosity functions, spectral energy distributions and backwards evolution models of star formation rates can be used to calculate the past history of intergalactic photon densities and, from them, the present and past optical depth of the universe. This procedure can be reversed by looking for sharp cutoffs in the spectra of extragalactic gamma-ray sources at high redshifts in the multi-GeV energy range with GLAST. Determining the cutoff energies of sources with known redshifts and little intrinsic absorption can enable a more precise determination of the past intergalactic photon density and thus allow a better determination of the past history of the total star formation rate, including that from galaxies too faint to be observed. Conversely, observations of sharp high energy cutoffs in the gamma-ray spectra of blazars at unknown redshifts can be used instead of spectral lines to give a measure of their redshifts. Also, given a knowledge photon densities, one can derive the intrinsic gamma-ray spectra and luminosities of blazars over a range of redshifts and look for possible trends in blazar evolution. I present some evidence hinting that TeV blazars with flatter spectra have higher intrinsic TeV gamma-ray luminosities and that there may be a correlation of flatness and luminosity with redshift. (abridged)

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