Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008aipc.1085..510k&link_type=abstract
HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY: Proceedings of the 4th International Meeting on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy. AIP Conferenc
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Quasars, Active Or Peculiar Galaxies, Objects, And Systems, Gamma-Ray, Quasars, Galactic Nuclei, Circumnuclear Matter, And Bulges
Scientific paper
Very high energy gamma-rays from blazars traversing cosmological distances through the meta-galactic radiation field can convert into electron-positron pairs in photon-photon collisions. The converted gamma-rays initiate electromagnetic cascades driven by inverse-Compton scattering with microwave background photons. Using a model for the time-dependent meta-galactic radiation field consistent with currently available far-infrared to optical data, the cascade contributions by faint, unresolved sources like blazars and FRI galaxies have been calculated. We come to the conclusion that depending on what is known so far about AGN, they are not able to produce the total extragalactic flux detected by EGRET. A test for the model will be the upcoming observations with FERMI. It would also be helpful to detect a signal above 100 GeV where the gamma-ray flux declines to 10-7 GeV sr-1 cm-2 s-1.
Kataoka Jun
Kneiske Tanja M.
Mannheim Karl
Stawarz Lukasz
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