Knee structure in high-energy inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons

Details Knee structure in high-energy inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons Knee structure in high-energy inverse Compton scattering of CMB photons

2011-03-22

arxiv.org/abs/1103.4284v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, submitted to Physical Review D

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We study the inverse Compton scattering of the CMB photons off nonthermal high-energy electrons. In the previous study, assuming the power-law distribution for electrons, we derived the analytic expression for the spectral intensity function $I(\omega)$ in the Thomson approximation, which was applicable up to the photon energies of $\omega <$ O(GeV). In the present paper, we extend the previous work to higher photon energies of $\omega >$ O(GeV) by taking into account the terms dropped in the Thomson approximation, i.e., the Klein-Nishina formula. The analytic expression for $I(\omega)$ is derived with the Klein-Nishina formula. It is shown that $I(\omega)$ has a "knee" structure at $\omega =$ O(PeV). The knee, if exists, should be accessible with gamma-ray observatories such as Fermi-LAT. We propose simple analytical formulae for $I(\omega)$ which are applicable to wide photon energies from Thomson region to extreme Klein-Nishina region.

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