A new model for the extragalactic gamma-ray background

Details A new model for the extragalactic gamma-ray background A new model for the extragalactic gamma-ray background

2011-05-23

arxiv.org/abs/1105.4613v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, submitted to MNRAS

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We present a two-parameter model of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) in the 0.1-100 GeV range as measured by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite. The EGB can be fully explained as the sum of three distinct components, namely blazars, non-beamed AGNs (Seyfert galaxies and QSOs), and cosmic rays from star-forming galaxies. The contribution to the background from beamed sources is obtained by fitting the Fermi-LAT blazar differential number counts assuming that the gamma-ray luminosity function is directly proportional to the radio luminosity function of FRI and FRII galaxies. The high energy emission from non-beamed AGNs is instead determined by popular synthesis models of the observed X-ray background. Finally, the EGB is fit by adding a third component arising from pion decay in cosmic rays, assuming that such component is closely linked to the cosmic star formation history. We find that blazars dominate at energies \geq 10 GeV, for E \leq 0.2 GeV the main contribution is from non-beamed AGNs, while cosmic rays are required in between. Because of absorption due to interaction of gamma-rays with the extra-galactic background light, our model falls short at the highest energies probed by LAT, (\geq 70 GeV), leaving room to a possible contribution from dark matter particle annihilation. As an example, a particle of mass ~ 0.5 TeV and cross section <{\sigma}v>~ 5*10^{-26} cm^3 s^-1 can accomodate the data.

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