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EBL的潜力和切伦科夫望远镜阵列的宇宙学研究

Potential of EBL and cosmology studies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Daniel Mazin, Martin Raue, Bagmeet Behera, Susumu Inoue, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Takeshi Nakamori, Tomonori Totani

摘要:

如果所涉及的光子能量高于电子-正电子对产生的阈值,那么非常高能量(VHE,E >100 GeV)的伽马射线通过与来自河外背景光(EBL)的低能光子的相互作用而被吸收。VHE的伽马射线吸收,这是能量依赖性和强烈的红移增加,扭曲了从遥远的物体观察到的VHE光谱。因此,所观测到的活动星系核的能谱带有EBL的印记。当代成像大气切伦科夫望远镜(IACTs)对遥远源(z = 0.11 - 0.54)的VHE伽马射线光谱的探测,使用了关于耀变体物理学的某些基本假设,使EBL密度能够设定强上限。本文研究了切伦科夫望远镜阵列(CTA)灵敏度的提高及其能量覆盖范围的扩大将如何扩大我们对EBL及其来源的认识。CTA将提供一个大样本的活动星系核在不同的红移与详细的测量光谱。此外,它将提供一个令人兴奋的机会,使用伽马射线暴(GRB)作为探针的EBL密度在高红移。

英文摘要:

Very high energy (VHE, E >100 GeV) gamma-rays are absorbed via interaction with low-energy photons from the extragalactic background light (EBL) if the involved photon energies are above the threshold for electron-positron pair creation. The VHE gamma-ray absorption, which is energy dependent and increases strongly with redshift, distorts the VHE spectra observed from distant objects. The observed energy spectra of the AGNs carry, therefore, an imprint of the EBL. The detection of VHE gamma-ray spectra of distant sources (z = 0.11 - 0.54) by current generation Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) enabled to set strong upper limits on the EBL density, using certain basic assumptions about blazar physics. In this paper it is studied how the improved sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) and its enlarged energy coverage will enlarge our knowledge about the EBL and its sources. CTA will deliver a large sample of AGN at different redshifts with detailed measured spectra. In addition, it will provide the exciting opportunity to use gamma ray bursts (GRBs) as probes for the EBL density at high redshifts.

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