The Contribution from Radio Quiet Quasars to γ-ray Background

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>The EGRET observations have confirmed and proposed the new isotropically distributed γ-ray background, but the known objects radiating γ-rays can not supply so much radiation. Meanwhile, EGRET also reveals a population of γ-ray sources with no radio counterparts which are isotropically distributed in the sky, indicating their possible cosmological origins. Wang et al.[13] proposed a new γ-ray radiation process driven by the radiation feedback of AGNs. The energy of the radiation peaks around 1 GeV—0.1 TeV with the typical luminosity of 1042—1043 ergs · s-1. This kind of radiation process in the radio quiet quasars make them the potential γ-ray radiation sources as well as the contributors to the γ-ray background. We consider two cases in which the seed photons in the inverse-Compton processes are from the accretion disks of quasars and cosmic microwave background (CMB), respectively. We find that the former contributes 78%—92% of the background radiation around 1 GeV, while the contribution from the latter is negligible. The radio quiet quasars are highly likely to become the objects which contribute the most energy to the γ-ray background around 1 GeV.

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