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硬Gamma-ray源与沿视线方向的宇宙空洞的相关性

A Correlation Between Hard Gamma-ray Sources and Cosmic Voids Along the Line of Sight

A. Furniss, P. M. Sutter, J. R. Primack, A. Dominguez

摘要:

我们估计银河系密度沿视线硬河外伽玛射线源的相关源的位置与空目录的基础上斯隆数字巡天(SDSS)的天空。在非常高的能量(VHE; E>100 GeV)下探测到的河外伽马射线源,或在费米大天区望远镜硬源目录中被突出显示为VHE发射候选者(统称为“VHE样”源),分布在2.4 sigma水平的低密度视线上。对于费米硬源群(1.7 σ),也有一个不太明显的相关性。10-500 GeV的通量和欠密分数之间的相关性沿视线的VHE类和费米硬源被发现在2.4西格玛和2.6西格玛,分别。在第二个费米星表中的伽马射线发射星系(包含100 MeV以上的射线源)或SDSS DR 7类星体星表中,并没有显示出对低密度视线的偏好。我们调查这种边际相关性是否可能是由于较低的河外背景光(EBL)的光子密度在undersense区域内,并发现,即使在最极端的情况下,一个完全undersense视线,EBL的光子密度只有2%小于标称EBL密度。对于不透明度为τ(E,z)~5的高度衰减源,将其转换为沿视线的伽马射线衰减,我们估计伽马射线的衰减减少不超过10%。这种减少,虽然不可忽略,是无法解释的明显的硬源相关性与低密度的视线。

英文摘要:

We estimate the galaxy density along lines of sight to hard extragalactic gamma-ray sources by correlating source positions on the sky with a void catalog based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Extragalactic gamma-ray sources that are detected at very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) or have been highlighted as VHE-emitting candidates in the Fermi Large Area Telescope hard source catalog (together referred to as "VHE-like" sources) are distributed along underdense lines of sight at the 2.4 sigma level. There is also a less suggestive correlation for the Fermi hard source population (1.7 sigma). A correlation between 10-500 GeV flux and underdense fraction along the line of sight for VHE-like and Fermi hard sources is found at 2.4 sigma and 2.6 sigma, respectively. The preference for underdense sight lines is not displayed by gamma-ray emitting galaxies within the second Fermi catalog, containing sources detected above 100 MeV, or the SDSS DR7 quasar catalog. We investigate whether this marginal correlation might be a result of lower extragalactic background light (EBL) photon density within the underdense regions and find that, even in the most extreme case of a entirely underdense sight line, the EBL photon density is only 2% less than the nominal EBL density. Translating this into gamma-ray attenuation along the line of sight for a highly attenuated source with opacity tau(E,z) ~5, we estimate that the attentuation of gamma-rays decreases no more than 10%. This decrease, although non-neglible, is unable to account for the apparent hard source correlation with underdense lines of sight.

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