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下一代切伦科夫望远镜观测甚高能Blazar的前景

Prospects for Very High Energy Blazar Survey by the Next Generation Cherenkov Telescopes

Yoshiyuki Inoue, Tomonori Totani, Masaki Mori

摘要:

利用最新的耀变体光度函数及其演化模型,研究了新一代甚高能γ射线望远镜(如先进γ射线成像系统(AGIS)和切伦科夫望远镜阵列(CTA))对耀变体的观测前景。该模型与观测到的耀变体的流量和红移分布以及河外γ射线背景具有很好的一致性。我们扩展和改进的模板的光谱能量分布(SED)的基础上blazar SED序列范例,使其可靠的VHE波段(100 GeV以上),通过与现有的VHE blazar数据进行比较。假设计划的CTA灵敏度,使用约100小时的总调查时间的盲测可以检测到约3个VHE blazar,对于更宽/更浅的调查,预期数量更大。我们还讨论了费米耀变体的后续研究。介绍了VHE耀变体在费米通量和红移平面上的可探测性,这将对未来的巡天计划有帮助。讨论了利用耀变体最亮光谱的吸收特征和红移分布的截止点来抑制河外背景光的前景和策略。我们将能够得到有用的约束EBL的VHE耀变体在不同的红移范围为0.3-1 TeV对应的z=0.10-0.36。

英文摘要:

The prospects for future blazar surveys by next-generation very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray telescopes, such as Advanced Gamma-ray Imaging System (AGIS) and Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), are investigated using the latest model of blazar luminosity function and its evolution which is in good agreement with the flux and redshift distribution of observed blazars as well as the extragalactic gamma-ray background. We extend and improve the template of spectral energy distributions (SEDs) based on the blazar SED sequence paradigm, to make it reliable also in the VHE bands (above 100 GeV) by comparing with the existing VHE blazar data. Assuming the planned CTA sensitivities, a blind survey using a total survey time of ~100 hrs could detect ~3 VHE blazars, with larger expected numbers for wider/shallower surveys. We also discuss following-up of Fermi blazars. Detectability of VHE blazars in the plane of Fermi flux and redshift is presented, which would be useful for future survey planning. Prospects and strategies are discussed to constrain the extragalactic background light (EBL) by using the absorption feature of brightest blazar spectra, as well as cut-offs in the redshift distribution. We will be able to get useful constraints on EBL by VHE blazars at different redshifts ranging 0.3-1 TeV corresponding to z=0.10-0.36.

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