The Gamma-Ray Background Constrains the Origins of the Radio and X-Ray Backgrounds

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2010-11-01

arxiv.org/abs/1011.0437v2

Astrophysical Journal Letters (2011), 729, L1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Published in ApJL; 5 pages, 2 figures

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Cosmic ray protons generate gamma-rays, neutrinos, and secondary electrons and positrons (e+/-) through pion-producing collisions with gas atoms. Any synchrotron or Inverse Compton (IC) radiation from secondary e+/- is therefore accompanied by pionic gamma-rays. Using the extragalactic gamma-ray background, we constrain the contribution of secondary e+/- to the cosmic radio, X-ray, and soft gamma-ray backgrounds. These bounds depend on the unknown hadronic contribution to the gamma-ray background and the backgrounds' source redshifts. With our assumptions, we find that IC-upscattered light from secondaries is <~ 1/4 of the MeV - GeV gamma-ray background and <~ 10% of the 0.5 keV - 1 MeV background (for sources at a redshift z <~ 10). The low intensity of the observed gamma-ray background is marginally inconsistent with a secondary e+/- origin for the radio background reported by ARCADE at ~3 GHz, unless the magnetic field strength in their sources is milliGauss or greater. These limits on the magnetic field strength are sensitive to uncertainties. However, any contribution to the gamma-ray background from sources not responsible for the ARCADE excess increases the inconsistency.

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