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测量河外背景光的新方法:费米在天炉座A叶上的应用

A novel method for measuring the extragalactic background light: Fermi application to the lobes of Fornax A

Markos Georganopoulos, Rita M. Sambruna, Demosthenes Kazanas, Analia N. Cillis, Chi C. Cheung, Eric S. Perlman, Katherine M. Blundell, David S. Davis

摘要:

本文描述了一种通过探测射电星系叶中相对论电子散射产生的$γ$射线逆康普顿(IC)辐射来测量河外背景光(EBL)的新方法。我们的方法没有自由的物理参数,是一个强大的工具,当叶的特点是由一个高能量的急剧中断或切断在其电子能量分布(EED)。我们表明,这样的功能将产生一个高能量的IC '印记'的EBL频谱中的无线电波瓣嵌入,并显示如何使用此印记可以用来获得EBL。我们将我们的方法应用到附近的明亮的射电星系天炉座A,我们证明,使用WMAP和EGRET观测,其叶的EED的特点是一个方便的位置截止,使IC EBL发射到{ \sl费米}能量范围。我们表明,{ \sl费米}将设置上限的光学EBL和测量更难以捉摸的红外EBL。

英文摘要:

We describe a new method for measuring the extragalactic background light (EBL) through the detection of $γ$-ray inverse Compton (IC) emission due to scattering of the EBL photons off relativistic electrons in the lobes of radio galaxies. Our method has no free physical parameters and is a powerful tool when the lobes are characterized by a high energy sharp break or cutoff in their electron energy distribution (EED). We show that such a feature will produce a high energy IC `imprint' of the EBL spectrum in which the radio lobes are embedded, and show how this imprint can be used to derive the EBL. We apply our method to the bright nearby radio galaxy Fornax A, for which we demonstrate, using WMAP and EGRET observations, that the EED of its lobes is characterized by a conveniently located cutoff, bringing the IC EBL emission into the {\sl Fermi} energy range. We show that {\sl Fermi} will set upper limits to the optical EBL and measure the more elusive infrared EBL.

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