Absorption of High‐Energy Gamma Rays by Interactions with Extragalactic Starlight Photons at High Redshifts and the High‐Energy Gamma‐Ray Background
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Absorption of High Energy Gamma Rays by Interactions With Starlight Photons in Extragalactic Space at High Redshifts and the High Energy Gamma-Ray Background
In this paper, we extend previous work on the absorption of high energy γ-rays in intergalactic space by calculating the absorption of 10 to 500 GeV γ-rays at high redshifts. This calculation requires the determination of the high-redshift evolution of the intergalactic starlight photon field, including its spectral energy distribution out to frequencies beyond the Lyman limit. To estimate this...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1086/305134