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对Gamma-ray背景的未解决的不明来源贡献

Unresolved Unidentified Source Contribution to the Gamma-ray Background

V. Pavlidou, J. M. Siegal-Gaskins, B. D. Fields, A. V. Olinto, C. Brown

摘要:

绝大多数EGRET点源仍然没有确定的低能对应物,其中很大一部分很可能是河外的。无论河外EGRET不明源的性质如何,同一类的微弱未分辨物体必须对弥漫的河外伽马射线背景(EGRB)有贡献。了解EGRB的这一组成部分,以及已知来源的其他保证贡献,如果我们要使用这种发射来约束外来高能物理,是必不可少的。在这里,我们按照经验的方法来估计是否潜在的贡献不明来源的EGRB可能是重要的,我们发现,它是。此外,我们展示了如何即将到来的GLAST观测EGRET不明来源,以及他们的暗淡的同行,可以结合GLAST观测银河系和河外弥漫背景,揭示了EGRET不明来源的性质,即使没有任何位置的关联,这些来源与低能量的同行。

英文摘要:

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 unresolved objects of the same class must have a contribution to the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB). Understanding this component of the EGRB, along with other guaranteed contributions from known sources, is essential if we are to use this emission to constrain exotic high-energy physics. Here, we follow an empirical approach to estimate whether a potential contribution of unidentified sources to the EGRB is likely to be important, and we find that it is. Additionally, we show how upcoming GLAST observations of EGRET unidentified sources, as well as of their fainter counterparts, can be combined with GLAST observations of the Galactic and extragalactic diffuse backgrounds to shed light on the nature of the EGRET unidentified sources even without any positional association of such sources with low-energy counterparts.

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