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تسجيل مستخدم جديدSearching for an EBL attenuation signature in the Fermi/LAT 1st year catalog data
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Observations of distant sources of high-energy (HE) gamma-rays are affected by attenuation resulting from the interaction of the gamma-rays with low energy photons from the diffuse meta-galactic radiation fields at ultraviolet (UV) to infrared (IR) wavelengths (Extragalactic Background Light; EBL). Recently, a large data-set of HE observations from the 1st year survey of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument on-board of the Fermi satellite became available, covering an energy range from 100 MeV up to 100 GeV. In this paper, the potential of such large HE data-sets to probe the density of the EBL - especially in the UV to optical - is explored. The data from the catalog is investigated for an attenuation signature in the energy range 10-100 GeV and the results are compared with the predictions from EBL model calculations. No clear signature is found. The statistics are still limited by (1) the sensitivity of Fermi/LAT to detect sources above 10 GeV, (2) the number of firmly identified sources with known redshift, both which will improve over the coming years.
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