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The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

Ackermann, M.
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Ajello, M.
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Albert, A.
altro
Zimmer, S.
2015
  • journal article

Periodico
THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Abstract
The γ-ray sky can be decomposed into individually detected sources, diffuse emission attributed to the interactions of Galactic cosmic rays with gas and radiation fields, and a residual all-sky emission component commonly called the isotropic diffuse γ-ray background (IGRB). The IGRB comprises all extragalactic emissions too faint or too diffuse to be resolved in a given survey, as well as any residual Galactic foregrounds that are approximately isotropic. The first IGRB measurement with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) used 10 months of sky-survey data and considered an energy range between 200 MeV and 100 GeV. Improvements in event selection and characterization of cosmic-ray backgrounds, better understanding of the diffuse Galactic emission (DGE), and a longer data accumulation of 50 months allow for a refinement and extension of the IGRB measurement with the LAT, now covering the energy range from 100 MeV to 820 GeV. The IGRB spectrum shows a significant high-energy cutoff feature and can be well described over nearly four decades in energy by a power law with exponential cutoff having a spectral index of 2.32 ± 0.02 and a break energy of (279 ± 52) GeV using our baseline DGE model. The total intensity attributed to the IGRB is (7.2 ± 0.6) × 10-6 cm-2 s-1 sr-1 above 100 MeV, with an additional +15%/-30% systematic uncertainty due to the Galactic diffuse foregrounds.
DOI
10.1088/0004-637X/799/1/86
WOS
WOS:000348214500084
Archivio
http://hdl.handle.net/11368/2842830
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-84921629099
Diritti
open access
license:digital rights management non definito
FVG url
https://arts.units.it/bitstream/11368/2842830/2/Spectrum of isotropic.pdf
Soggetti
  • Diffuse radiation

  • Gamma rays: Diffuse b...

  • Space and Planetary S...

  • Astronomy and Astroph...

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