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切伦科夫望远镜对河外背景光的限制:未来5年的现状和展望

Constraints on Extragalactic Background Light from Cherenkov telescopes: status and perspectives for the next 5 years

D. Mazin

摘要:

如果所涉及的光子能量高于电子-正电子对产生的阈值,那么非常高能量(VHE,E > 30 GeV)的伽马射线通过与来自河外背景光(EBL)的低能光子的相互作用而被吸收。VHE的伽马射线吸收,这是能量依赖性和强烈增加的红移,扭曲的VHE能谱从遥远的物体。因此,活动星系核的观测能谱带有EBL的印记。H.E.S.S.对遥远耀变体(z = 0.11 - 0.54)硬光谱的最新探测MAGIC对光学到近红外波段的EBL密度有很强的限制。然而,目前尚无法区分耀变体光谱的内在软化和与低能EBL光子相互作用引起的软化。在本文中,我们给出了一个概述的EBL约束,其局限性和前景的费米伽马射线空间望远镜和成像大气切伦科夫望远镜的共同努力。

英文摘要:

Very high energy (VHE, E > 30 GeV) gamma-rays are absorbed via interaction with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background light (EBL) if the involved photon energies are above the threshold for electron-positron pair creation. The VHE gamma-ray absorption, which is energy dependent and increases strongly with redshift, distorts the VHE energy spectra observed from distant objects. The observed energy spectra of the AGNs carry therefore an imprint of the EBL. Recent detections of hard spectra of distant blazars (z = 0.11 - 0.54) by H.E.S.S. and MAGIC put strong constraints on the EBL density in the optical to near infrared waveband. It is, however, not yet possible to distinguish between an intrinsic softening of blazar spectra and a softening caused by the interaction with low energy EBL photons. In this paper, we give an overview of the EBL constraints, their limitations and perspectives for the joint efforts of the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space telescope and imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes.

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