Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Apr 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999head....4.1709c&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #4, #17.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.718
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Gamma rays above 10 GeV will interact with optical photons through pair production. Therefore, a large enough sample of high redshift sources of these gamma rays can be used to probe the extragalactic background starlight (EBL) by examining the redshift dependence of the ratio between the flux above 10 GeV and the total gamma-ray flux above 1 GeV. GLAST, the next generation high-energy gamma-ray telescope, will detect thousands of gamma-ray blazars up to redshifts of at least z = 3, with enough angular resolution to optically identify a large fraction of them. I combined recent determinations of the gamma-ray blazar luminosity function, recent calculations of the high energy gamma-ray opacity due to EBL absorption, and projections of the likely configurations of GLAST to produce simulated samples of blazars that GLAST would detect, including their redshifts and fluxes. The results indicate that these blazars have the potential to be a highlhighly effective probe of the EBL.
Chen Andrew W.
Ritz Steve
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