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Fermi-LAT Blazar的通量和光子谱指数分布及其对河外Gamma-ray背景的贡献

Flux and Photon Spectral Index Distributions of Fermi-LAT Blazars And Contribution To The Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background

J. Singal, V. Petrosian, M. Ajello

摘要:

我们提出了一个确定的光子光谱指数和伽玛射线通量的分布-所谓的LogN-LogS关系-为352 blazar检测大于约7西格玛检测阈值和位于+/- 20度银河纬度以上的费米伽玛射线空间望远镜的大面积望远镜在其第一年的目录。因为通量检测阈值取决于光子指数,所以观察到的原始分布不提供真实的LogN-LogS计数或光子指数的真实分布。我们使用Efron和Petrosian开发的非参数方法从观察到的数据中重建内在分布,这些数据解释了观测偏差引入的数据截断,并包括两个变量之间可能的相关性的影响。我们使用blazar的模拟数据集证明了我们的程序的鲁棒性,然后将其应用于真实数据,发现对于整个种群,内禀通量分布可以由高指数和低指数分别为-2.37 +/- 0.13和-1.70 +/- 0.26的破幂律表示,并且本征光子指数分布可以由平均值为2.41 +/-0.13和0.25 +/-0.03的高斯分布表示。我们还分别找到了BL Lac和FSRQs型耀变体的内禀分布。然后计算了费米耀变体对弥漫的河外γ射线背景辐射的贡献。在假设耀变体的通量分布持续到任意低通量的情况下,我们计算出所有耀变体对河外γ射线总输出的最佳拟合贡献为60%,具有很大的不确定性。

英文摘要:

We present a determination of the distributions of photon spectral index and gamma-ray flux - the so called LogN-LogS relation - for the 352 blazars detected with a greater than approximately seven sigma detection threshold and located above +/- 20 degrees Galactic latitude by the Large Area Telescope of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in its first year catalog. Because the flux detection threshold depends on the photon index, the observed raw distributions do not provide the true LogN-LogS counts or the true distribution of the photon index. We use the non-parametric methods developed by Efron and Petrosian to reconstruct the intrinsic distributions from the observed ones which account for the data truncations introduced by observational bias and includes the effects of the possible correlation between the two variables. We demonstrate the robustness of our procedures using a simulated data set of blazars and then apply these to the real data and find that for the population as a whole the intrinsic flux distribution can be represented by a broken power law with high and low indexes of -2.37 +/- 0.13 and -1.70 +/- 0.26, respectively, and the intrinsic photon index distribution can be represented by a Gaussian with mean of 2.41 +/- 0.13 and width of 0.25 +/- 0.03. We also find the intrinsic distributions for the sub-populations of BL Lac and FSRQs type blazars separately. We then calculate the contribution of Fermi blazars to the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background radiation. Under the assumption that the flux distribution of blazars continues to arbitrarily low fluxes, we calculate the best fit contribution of all blazars to the total extragalactic gamma-ray output to be 60%, with a large uncertainty.

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