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TeV blazar 1 ES 0229+200的费米/LAT观测约束的星系际磁场

The intergalactic magnetic field constrained by Fermi/LAT observations of the TeV blazar 1ES 0229+200

F. Tavecchio, G. Ghisellini, L. Foschini, G. Bonnoli, G. Ghirlanda, P. Coppi

摘要:

TeV的光子从耀变体在相对较大的距离,与光学-红外宇宙背景相互作用,有效地转换成电子-正电子对。产生的电子对具有极强的相对论性(洛伦兹因子为1 e 6 1 e 7的量级),并通过与微波宇宙背景的光子的逆康普顿散射迅速释放能量,产生GeV波段的辐射。这个再处理的发射的光谱和通量水平是严重依赖于星系际磁场的强度,B,它可以偏转的对稀释本征发射在一个大的立体角。我们推导出一个简单的关系,预计从一个稳定的源再处理的频谱。我们将这种处理应用到blazar 1 ES 0229+200,其固有的非常硬的TeV光谱预计是近似稳定的。将预测的再处理发射与费米/大面积望远镜测量的上限进行比较,我们根据河外背景光的模型,将星系际磁场的值限制为大于$B \simeq 5\times 10^{-15}$高斯。

英文摘要:

TeV photons from blazars at relatively large distances, interacting with the optical-IR cosmic background, are efficiently converted into electron-positron pairs. The produced pairs are extremely relativistic (Lorentz factors of the order of 1e6 1e7 and promptly loose their energy through inverse Compton scatterings with the photons of the microwave cosmic background, producing emission in the GeV band. The spectrum and the flux level of this reprocessed emission is critically dependent on the intensity of the intergalactic magnetic field, B, that can deflect the pairs diluting the intrinsic emission over a large solid angle. We derive a simple relation for the reprocessed spectrum expected from a steady source. We apply this treatment to the blazar 1ES 0229+200, whose intrinsic very hard TeV spectrum is expected to be approximately steady. Comparing the predicted reprocessed emission with the upper limits measured by the Fermi/Large Area Telescope, we constrain the value of the intergalactic magnetic field to be larger than $B \simeq 5\times 10^{-15}$ Gauss, depending on the model of extragalactic background light.

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