Kiloparsec-Scale Jets in FR I Radio Galaxies and the Gamma-Ray Background

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2005-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0507316v2

Astrophys.J.637:693-698,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 3 figures included. ApJ accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/498084

We discuss the contribution of kiloparsec-scale jets in FR I radio galaxies to the diffuse gamma-ray background radiation. The analyzed gamma-ray emission comes from inverse-Compton scattering of starlight photon fields by the ultrarelativistic electrons whose synchrotron radiation is detected from such sources at radio, optical and X-ray energies. We find that these objects, under the minimum-power hypothesis (corresponding to a magnetic field of 300 muG in the brightest knots of these jets), can contribute about one percent to the extragalactic gamma-ray background measured by EGRET. We point out that this result already indicates that the magnetic fields in kpc-scale jets of low-power radio galaxies are not likely to be smaller than 10 muG on average, as otherwise the extragalactic gamma-ray background would be overproduced.

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