Pair-Compton cascading in a spatially varying anisotropic radiation field

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Nov 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992aph.....1..113p&link_type=abstract

Astroparticle Physics, Volume 1, Issue 1, p. 113-127.

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When energetic electrons Compton scatter soft photons in the Klein-Nishina regime, the produced gamma rays are subject to photon-photon pair attenuation, and a pair-Compton cascade results. We examine the formation of such cascades in the spatially varying photon fields encountered by high-energy electrons and photons emitted from luminous compact objects. Constraints on the geometry of the soft photon source and the location of the gamma-ray production site are deduced from observations of 100 MeV and TeV gamma rays emitted by galactic compact objects and active galactic nuclei.

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