Angular Correlations of the MeV Cosmic Gamma Ray Background

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2004-01-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401351v3

Astrophys.J. 614 (2004) 37-42

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 3 figures. ApJ, (2004), 614, 37

Scientific paper

10.1086/423329

The measured cosmic gamma ray background (CGB) spectrum at MeV energies is in reasonable agreement with the predicted contribution from type Ia supernovae (SNIa). But the characteristic features in the SNIa gamma ray spectrum, weakened by integration over source redshifts, are hard to measure, and additionally the contributions from other sources in the MeV range are uncertain, so that the SNIa origin of the MeV CGB remains unproven. Since different CGB sources have different clustering properties and redshift distributions, by combining the CGB spectrum and angular correlation measurements, the contributions to the CGB could be identified and separated. The SNIa CGB large-scale structure follows that of galaxies. Its rms fluctuation at degree scales has a characteristic energy dependence, ranging from $\sim 1%$ to order of unity and can be measured to several percent precision by proposed future satellites such as the Advanced Compton Telescope. With the identification of the SNIa contribution, the SNIa rate could be measured unambiguously as a function of redshift up to $z \sim 1$, by combining both the spectrum and angular correlation measurements, yielding new constraints on the star formation rate to even higher redshifts. Finally, we show that the gamma ray and neutrino backgrounds from supernovae should be closely connected, allowing an important consistency test from the measured data. Identification of the astrophysical contributions to the CGB would allow much greater sensitivity to an isotropic high-redshift CGB contribution arising in extra dimension or dark matter models.

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