2019MNRAS.486.4233A

Query : 2019MNRAS.486.4233A

2019MNRAS.486.4233A - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 486, 4233-4251 (2019/July-1)

Measurement of the extragalactic background light using MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations of blazars up to z = 1.

ACCIARI V.A., ANSOLDI S., ANTONELLI L.A., ARBET ENGELS A., BAACK D., BABIC A., BANERJEE B., BARRES DE ALMEIDA U., BARRIO J.A., BECERRA GONZALEZ J., BEDNAREK W., BELLIZZI L., BERNARDINI E., BERTI A., BESENRIEDER J., BHATTACHARYYA W., BIGONGIARI C., BILAND A., BLANCH O., BONNOLI G., BUSETTO G., CAROSI R., CERIBELLA G., CHAI Y., CIKOTA S., COLAK S.M., COLIN U., COLOMBO E., CONTRERAS J.L., CORTINA J., COVINO S., D'ELIA V., DA VELA P., DAZZI F., DE ANGELIS A., DE LOTTO B., DELFINO M., DELGADO J., DI PIERRO F., DO SOUTO ESPINEIRA E., DOMINGUEZ A., DOMINIS PRESTER D., DORNER D., DORO M., ELSAESSER D., FALLAH RAMAZANI V., FATTORINI A., FERNANDEZ-BARRAL A., FERRARA G., FIDALGO D., FOFFANO L., FONSECA M.V., FONT L., FRUCK C., GALINDO D., GALLOZZI S., GARCIA LOPEZ R.J., GARCZARCZYK M., GASPARYAN S., GAUG M., GODINOVIC N., GREEN D., GUBERMAN D., HADASCH D., HAHN A., HASSAN T., HERRERA J., HOANG J., HRUPEC D., INOUE S., ISHIO K., IWAMURA Y., KUBO H., KUSHIDA J., LAMASTRA A., LELAS D., LEONE F., LINDFORS E., LOMBARDI S., LONGO F., LOPEZ M., LOPEZ-COTO R., LOPEZ-ORAMAS A., MACHADO DE OLIVEIRA FRAGA B., MAGGIO C., MAJUMDAR P., MAKARIEV M., MALLAMACI M., MANEVA G., MANGANARO M., MANNHEIM K., MARASCHI L., MARIOTTI M., MARTINEZ M., MASUDA S., MAZIN D., MICANOVIC S., MICELI D., MINEV M., MIRANDA J.M., MIRZOYAN R., MOLINA E., MORALEJO A., MORCUENDE D., MORENO V., MORETTI E., MUNAR-ADROVER P., NEUSTROEV V., NIEDZWIECKI A., NIEVAS ROSILLO M., NIGRO C., NILSSON K., NINCI D., NISHIJIMA K., NODA K., NOGUES L., NOTHE M., PAIANO S., PALACIO J., PALATIELLO M., PANEQUE D., PAOLETTI R., PAREDES J.M., PENIL P., PERESANO M., PERSIC M., PRADA MORONI P.G., PRANDINI E., PULJAK I., RHODE W., RIBO M., RICO J., RIGHI C., RUGLIANCICH A., SAHA L., SAHAKYAN N., SAITO T., SATALECKA K., SCHWEIZER T., SITAREK J., SNIDARIC I., SOBCZYNSKA D., SOMERO A., STAMERRA A., STROM D., STRZYS M., SURIC T., TAVECCHIO F., TEMNIKOV P., TERZIC T., TESHIMA M., TORRES-ALBA N., TSUJIMOTO S., VAN SCHERPENBERG J., VANZO G., VAZQUEZ ACOSTA M., VOVK I., WILL M. and ZARIC D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a measurement of the extragalactic background light (EBL) based on a joint likelihood analysis of 32 gamma-ray spectra for 12 blazars in the redshift range z = 0.03-0.944, obtained by the MAGIC telescopes and Fermi-LAT. The EBL is the part of the diffuse extragalactic radiation spanning the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared bands. Major contributors to the EBL are the light emitted by stars through the history of the Universe, and the fraction of it that was absorbed by dust in galaxies and re-emitted at longer wavelengths.The EBL can be studied indirectly through its effect on very high energy photons that are emitted by cosmic sources and absorbed via γγ interactions during their propagation across cosmological distances. We obtain estimates of the EBL density in good agreement with state-of-the-art models of the EBL production and evolution. The 1σ upper bounds, including systematic uncertainties, are between 13 per cent and 23 per cent above the nominal EBL density in the models. No anomaly in the expected transparency of the Universe to gamma-rays is observed in any range of optical depth. We also perform a wavelength-resolved EBL determination, which results in a hint of an excess of EBL in the 0.18-0.62 µm range relative to the studied models, yet compatible with them within systematics.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - gamma-rays: galaxies - infrared: diffuse background - infrared: galaxies

Simbad objects: 12

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Number of rows : 12
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA 		ICRS (J2000)
DEC 		Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026 		#notes
1 6C 021803+354230 BLL 02 21 05.4920852208 +35 56 13.848581904   20.0 20.0 19.60   ~ 603 3
2 RX J0232.8+2017 BLL 02 32 48.6148874688 +20 17 17.486717388     18.00 13.96   ~ 387 1
3 RX J1015.0+4926 BLL 10 15 04.1396533776 +49 26 00.706055496   16.56 16.15 14.58   ~ 400 3
4 Z 184-50 BLL 11 04 27.3140835504 +38 12 31.798495872   13.50 12.90 8.31   ~ 2841 1
5 7C 122223.5+213929 Bla 12 24 54.4583146056 +21 22 46.385507388   17.56 17.50 18.2   ~ 770 2
6 PG 1424+240 BLL 14 27 00.3917926224 +23 48 00.037510776 14.52 14.34 14.95 14.5   ~ 420 1
7 7C 1441+2514 Bla 14 43 56.89220390 +25 01 44.4907165   19.5   19.7   ~ 179 1
8 QSO J1512-0906 Bla 15 12 50.53293048 -09 05 59.8297908   16.74 16.54     ~ 1409 1
9 PG 1553+113 BLL 15 55 43.0440048528 +11 11 24.365649948 14.91 14.72 14.57 13.99   ~ 672 1
10 ZW I 187 BLL 17 28 18.6242294352 +50 13 10.469553996   16.55 15.97 12.95   ~ 396 1
11 QSO B1959+650 BLL 19 59 59.8520303688 +65 08 54.652536492     12.8 11.21   ~ 699 2
12 NAME BL Lac BLL 22 02 43.2913536816 +42 16 39.979416792   15.66 14.72     ~ 2397 1

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