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用Fermi和TeV组合数据约束blazar距离:经验方法

Constraining blazar distances with combined Fermi and TeV data: an empirical approach

E. Prandini, G. Bonnoli, L. Maraschi, M. Mariotti, F. Tavecchio

摘要:

讨论了在GeV和TeV波段利用组合观测约束红移未知的耀变体距离的方法。我们假设,VHE光谱通过与河外背景光的相互作用的吸收校正不可能比费米/LAT带的光谱更硬。从观测到的VHE光谱数据开始,我们推导出EBL校正光谱作为红移z的函数,并将其与幂律拟合,以与LAT数据的幂律拟合进行比较。我们将该方法应用于所有已知距离的LAT探测到的TeV耀变体,并推导出一个描述上限和真实红移之间关系的经验定律,该定律可用于估计未知红移耀变体的距离。使用不同的EBL模型会导致导出的上限发生系统性变化。最后,我们利用这个关系推断了未知红移blazar PKS 1424+240的距离。

英文摘要:

We discuss a method to constrain the distance of blazars with unknown redshift using combined observations in the GeV and TeV regimes. We assume that the VHE spectrum corrected for the absorption through the interaction with the Extragalactic Background Light can not be harder than the spectrum in the Fermi/LAT band. Starting from the observed VHE spectral data we derive the EBL-corrected spectra as a function of the redshift z and fit them with power laws to be compared with power law fits to the LAT data. We apply the method to all TeV blazars detected by LAT with known distance and derive an empirical law describing the relation between the upper limits and the true redshifts that can be used to estimate the distance of unknown redshift blazars. Using different EBL models leads to systematic changes in the derived upper limits. Finally, we use this relation to infer the distance of the unknown redshift blazar PKS 1424+240.

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