A New Determination of the Extragalactic Diffuse Gamma‐Ray Background from EGRET Data
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- 1 October 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 613 (2) , 956-961
- https://doi.org/10.1086/423196
Abstract
We use the GALPROP model for cosmic-ray propagation to obtain a new estimate of the Galactic component of γ-rays and show that away from the Galactic plane it gives an accurate prediction of the observed EGRET intensities in the energy range 30 MeV to 50 GeV. On this basis we reevaluate the extragalactic γ-ray background. We find that for some energies previous work underestimated the Galactic contribution at high latitudes and hence overestimated the background. Our new background spectrum shows a positive curvature similar to that expected for models of the extragalactic emission based on the blazar population.Keywords
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