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GeV衰减和高红移UV背景

GeV Gamma-Ray Attenuation and the High-Redshift UV Background

Rudy C. Gilmore, Piero Madau, Joel R. Primack, Rachel S. Somerville, Francesco Haardt

摘要:

我们提出了新的计算不断变化的紫外线背景的宇宙学再电离的时代,并作出预测的电子-正电子对生产的GeV伽马射线衰减量。我们的研究结果是基于最近的半解析模型的星系形成,它提供了预测的尘埃熄灭的紫外线辐射场由于星光,和经验估计的贡献,由于类星体。我们考虑了电离光子的星系际介质的再加工。我们测试我们的模型是否可以重现估计的电离背景在高红移通量减量分析和邻近效应测量类星体光谱,并确定一系列的模型,可以满足这些限制。对生产软漫射光子导致的光谱截止功能之间观察到的10和100 GeV的伽马射线。这个截止值随红移和假设的恒星形成和类星体演化模型而变化。我们发现,对于任何发射红移,在10 GeV以下观测到的伽马射线吸收量可以忽略不计。随着费米伽马射线空间望远镜和新的地面仪器对足够数量的高红移源的观测,应该有可能将河外背景光限制在光谱的紫外线和光学部分。

英文摘要:

We present new calculations of the evolving UV background out to the epoch of cosmological reionization and make predictions for the amount of GeV gamma-ray attenuation by electron-positron pair production. Our results are based on recent semi-analytic models of galaxy formation, which provide predictions of the dust-extinguished UV radiation field due to starlight, and empirical estimates of the contribution due to quasars. We account for the reprocessing of ionizing photons by the intergalactic medium. We test whether our models can reproduce estimates of the ionizing background at high redshift from flux decrement analysis and proximity effect measurements from quasar spectra, and identify a range of models that can satisfy these constraints. Pair-production against soft diffuse photons leads to a spectral cutoff feature for gamma rays observed between 10 and 100 GeV. This cutoff varies with redshift and the assumed star formation and quasar evolution models. We find only negligible amounts of absorption for gamma rays observed below 10 GeV for any emission redshift. With observations of high-redshift sources in sufficient numbers by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and new ground-based instruments it should be possible to constrain the extragalactic background light in the UV and optical portion of the spectrum.

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