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费米和TeV数据对Blazar距离的指示

Blazars distance indications from Fermi and TeV data

Elisa Prandini, Giacomo Bonnoli, Laura Maraschi, Mose' Mariotti, Fabrizio Tavecchio

摘要:

本文提出了一种新的方法,利用GeV和TeV波段的联合观测来约束具有未知红移的耀变体的距离。基本假设是,通过光子-光子相互作用由河外背景光(EBL)吸收TeV光子校正的甚高能量(VHE)光谱仍然应该比费米/LAT观察到的伽马射线光谱的外推更软。从观测到的光谱数据VHE,EBL校正的光谱导出作为红移z的函数,并与幂律拟合。将依赖于红移的VHE斜率与LAT数据的幂律拟合进行比较,可以导出源红移的上限。将该方法应用于所有已知距离的TeV耀变体,导出了描述上限与真实红移之间关系的经验定律。这个定律可以用来估计未知红移耀变体的距离:作为一个例子,PKS 1424+240的距离被推断。

英文摘要:

A new method to constrain the distance of blazars with unknown redshift using combined observations in the GeV and TeV regimes will be presented. The underlying assumption is that the Very High Energy (VHE) spectrum corrected for the absorption of TeV photons by the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) via photon-photon interaction should still be softer than the extrapolation of the gamma-ray spectrum observed by Fermi/LAT. Starting from the observed spectral data at VHE, the EBL-corrected spectra are derived as a function of the redshift z and fitted with power laws. Comparing the redshift dependent VHE slopes with the power law fits to the LAT data an upper limit to the source redshift can be derived. The method is applied to all TeV blazars detected by LAT with known distance and an empirical law describing the relation between the upper limits and the true redshifts is derived. This law can be used to estimate the distance of unknown redshift blazars: as an example, the distance of PKS 1424+240 is inferred.

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