論文

査読有り
2012年7月

Upper limit on the cosmological gamma-ray background

PHYSICAL REVIEW D
  • Yoshiyuki Inoue
  • ,
  • Kunihito Ioka

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記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.86.023003
出版者・発行元
AMER PHYSICAL SOC

We show that the current extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) measurement below 100 GeV sets an upper limit on EGB itself at very high energy (VHE) above 100 GeV. The limit is conservative for the electromagnetic cascade emission from VHE EGB interacting with the cosmic microwave-to-optical background radiation not to exceed the current EGB measurement. The cascade component fits the measured VHE EGB spectrum rather well. However, once we add the contribution from known source classes, the Fermi VHE EGB observation exceeds or even violates the limit, which is approximated as E(2)dN/dE < 4.5 x 10(-5) (E/100 GeV)(-0.7) MeV/cm(2)/s/sr. The upper limit above 100 GeV is useful in the future to probe the EGB origin and the new physics like axionlike particles and Lorentz-invariance violation.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.86.023003
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000306603400001&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.023003
  • ISSN : 2470-0010
  • eISSN : 2470-0029
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000306603400001

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