Teraelectronvolt astronomy

JA Hinton, W Hofmann - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Ground-based γ-ray astronomy, which provides access to the TeV energy range, is a young
and rapidly develo** discipline. Recent discoveries in this waveband have important …

The extragalactic background light and the gamma-ray opacity of the universe

E Dwek, F Krennrich - Astroparticle Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is one of the fundamental observational quantities
in cosmology. All energy releases from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources, and …

Extragalactic background light inferred from AEGIS galaxy-SED-type fractions

A Dominguez, JR Primack, DJ Rosario… - Monthly Notices of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is of fundamental importance both for
understanding the entire process of galaxy evolution and for γ-ray astronomy, but the overall …

Semi-analytic modelling of the extragalactic background light and consequences for extragalactic gamma-ray spectra

RC Gilmore, RS Somerville, JR Primack… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Attenuation of high-energy gamma-rays by pair production with ultraviolet, optical and
infrared (IR) extragalactic background light (EBL) photons provides a link between the …

A hadronic origin for ultra-high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects

M Cerruti, A Zech, C Boisson… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Current Cherenkov telescopes have identified a population of ultra-high-frequency peaked
BL Lac objects (UHBLs), also known as extreme blazars, that exhibit exceptionally hard TeV …

The second Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog of gamma-ray pulsars

AA Abdo, M Ajello, A Allafort, L Baldini… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence⩾ 0. 1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections
using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite …

TeV BL Lac objects at the dawn of the Fermi era

F Tavecchio, G Ghisellini, G Ghirlanda… - Monthly Notices of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
We reconsider the emission properties of BL Lac objects emitting in the high-energy γ-ray
band, by exploiting the information in the MeV–GeV band obtained by the Large Area …

Relevance of axionlike particles for very-high-energy astrophysics

A De Angelis, G Galanti, M Roncadelli - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2011 - APS
Several extensions of the standard model and, in particular, superstring theories suggest the
existence<? format?> of axionlike particles (ALPs), which are very light spin-zero bosons …

Gamma-ray studies of blazars: Synchro-compton analysis of flat spectrum radio quasars

CD Dermer, JD Finke, H Krug… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We extend a method for modeling synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton radiations in
blazar jets to include external Compton (EC) processes. The basic model assumption is that …

Hints of the existence of axionlike particles from the gamma-ray spectra of cosmological sources

MA Sánchez-Conde, D Paneque, E Bloom… - Physical Review D …, 2009 - APS
Axionlike particles (ALPs) are predicted to couple with photons in the presence of magnetic
fields. This effect may lead to a significant change in the observed spectra of gamma-ray …