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恒星对河外背景光的贡献和高能γ射线的吸收

The stellar contribution to the extra-galactic background light and absorption of high-energy gamma-rays

Soebur Razzaque, Charles D. Dermer, Justin D. Finke

摘要:

来自遥远天体物理源的TeV伽马射线由于电子-正电子对的产生而衰减,通过与充满宇宙的紫外/光学到红外光子相互作用,统称为河外背景光(EBL)。我们的模型的~0.1-10 eV的星光分量的EBL来自恒星初始质量函数,恒星形成的宇宙历史,和波长依赖的吸收的大样本的星系在本地宇宙的表达式。这些模型同时适合于EBL数据,以及在我们的本地宇宙的恒星光度密度的数据。我们发现,修正的Salpeter A初始质量函数与Cole et al.(2001)或Hopkins and Beacom(2006)的恒星形成历史模型最能代表现有数据。由于不包括尘埃排放,我们计算的EBL模型可以解释为在~0.1-1 eV范围内的下限。我们提出了简单的分析适合的最佳拟合EBL模型随红移的演变。然后,我们继续计算伽马射线不透明度,以及来自不同红移的~10-300 GeV伽马射线的吸收。我们讨论了费米伽马射线太空望远镜和地基空气切伦科夫望远镜的影响,我们的研究结果。

英文摘要:

TeV gamma rays from distant astrophysical sources are attenuated due to electron-positron pair creation by interacting with ultraviolet/optical to infrared photons which fill the universe and are collectively known as the extra-galactic background light (EBL). We model the ~0.1-10 eV starlight component of the EBL derived from expressions for the stellar initial mass function, star formation history of the universe, and wavelength-dependent absorption of a large sample of galaxies in the local universe. These models are simultaneously fitted to the EBL data as well as to the data on the stellar luminosity density in our local universe. We find that the models with modified Salpeter A initial mass function together with Cole et al. (2001) or Hopkins and Beacom (2006) star formation history best represent available data. Since no dust emission is included, our calculated EBL models can be interpreted as the lower limits in the ~0.1-1 eV range. We present simple analytic fits to the best-fit EBL model evolving with redshift. We then proceed to calculate gamma-ray opacities, and absorption of ~10-300 GeV gamma-rays coming from different redshifts. We discuss implications of our results for the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope and ground-based Air Cherenkov Telescopes.

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