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Blazar同时观测的EGMF约束

EGMF Constraints from Simultaneous GeV-TeV Observations of Blazars

A. M. Taylor, I. Vovk, A. Neronov

摘要:

TeV的伽马射线通量从遥远的耀变体通过对生产与河外背景光的衰减导致电磁级联和随后的发展,较低的能量,GeV的二次伽马射线发射。由于VHE级联电子的偏转由河外磁场(EGMF),该到达级联伽马射线发射的光谱形状取决于EGMF的强度。因此,从耀变体的GeV-TeV发射的光谱形状有可能探测EGMF强度沿视线的对象。我们调查的EGMF来自耀变体的TeV观测同时与费米望远镜的观测报告的约束。我们研究的依赖性的EGMF上界的隐藏的假设,它取决于。我们选择耀变体对象,同时费米/LAT GeV和Veritas,MAGIC或HESS TeV的排放已公布。我们使用蒙特卡罗模拟,包括级联光子引起的时间延迟的计算,相对于从源的直接伽马射线的光传播时间,沿这些源的伽马射线束的电磁级联的发展建模。对EGMF的限制可以从耀变体RGB J 0710 +591,1 ES 0229+200和1 ES 1218+304上同时获得的GeV-TeV数据中得出。测量的源通量水平在GeV波段是低于预期的级联组件下计算的零EGMF的假设。假设级联分量被抑制的原因是级联辐射的扩展性质,我们发现B>10^{-15} G(假设EGMF相关长度为~1 Mpc)与数据一致。或者,假设级联发射的抑制是由级联光子的时间延迟引起的,则在相同的关联长度下,数据与B>10^{-17} G是一致的。

英文摘要:

Attenuation of the TeV gamma-ray flux from distant blazars through pair production with extragalactic background light leads to the development of electromagnetic cascades and subsequent, lower energy, GeV secondary gamma-ray emission. Due to the deflection of VHE cascade electrons by extragalactic magnetic fields (EGMF), the spectral shape of this arriving cascade gamma-ray emission is dependent on the strength of the EGMF. Thus, the spectral shape of the GeV-TeV emission from blazars has the potential to probe the EGMF strength along the line of sight to the object. We investigate constraints on the EGMF derived from observations of blazars for which TeV observations simultaneous with those by the Fermi telescope were reported. We study the dependence of the EGMF bound on the hidden assumptions it rests upon. We select blazar objects for which simultaneous Fermi/LAT GeV and Veritas, MAGIC or HESS TeV emission have been published. We model the development of electromagnetic cascades along the gamma-ray beams from these sources using Monte Carlo simulations, including the calculation of the temporal delay incurred by cascade photons, relative to the light propagation time of direct gamma-rays from the source. Constraints on EGMF could be derived from the simultaneous GeV-TeV data on the blazars RGB J0710+591, 1ES 0229+200, and 1ES 1218+304. The measured source flux level in the GeV band is lower than the expected cascade component calculated under the assumption of zero EGMF. Assuming that the reason for the suppression of the cascade component is the extended nature of the cascade emission, we find that B>10^{-15} G (assuming EGMF correlation length of ~1 Mpc) is consistent with the data. Alternatively, the assumption that the suppression of the cascade emission is caused by the time delay of the cascade photons the data are consistent with B>10^{-17} G for the same correlation length.

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