Joint anisotropy and source count constraints on the contribution of blazars to the diffuse gamma-ray background
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A. Cuoco, E. Komatsu, and J.M. Siegal-Gaskins* The Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmo Particle Physics, AlbaNova, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Texas Cosmology Center and Department of Astronomy, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA (Received 7 March 2012; published 5 September 2012)
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