Dahai Yan, Houdun Zeng, Li Zhang
We estimate the contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGRB)
from both intrinsic and cascade emissions produced by blazars using a simple
semi- analysis method for two models of the blazar gamma-ray luminosity
function (GLF). For the cascade emission, we consider two possible
contributions: one is due to that the flux of the cascade emission is lower
than the Fermi LAT sensitivity (case I), which is independent on the
extragalactic magnetic field (EGMF), another is due to the fact that the flux
of the cascade emission is larger than the Fermi LAT sensitivity but the
emission angle is larger than LAT point-spread-function (PSF) angle (case II),
which depends on the EGMF. Our results indicate that (1) blazar contribution to
the EGRB is dominant although it depends on the GLF model and the EGMF; (2) the
EGMF plays an important role in estimating the contribution from the cascade
emission produced by blazars, the contribution from the cascade emission will
significantly alter the EGRB spectrum when the strength of the EGMF is large
enough (say BEGMF > 10-12 G); and (3) since the cascade emission in case II
reaches a saturation when the strength of the EGMF is ? 10-11 G, it is very
possible that the contribution from the cascade emission produced by blazars
can be considered as another method to probe the upper limit of the strength of
the EGMF.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4250
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