TOMOGRAPHY OF THE FERMI-LAT gamma-RAY DIFFUSE EXTRAGALACTIC SIGNAL VIA CROSS CORRELATIONS WITH GALAXY CATALOGS

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	TOMOGRAPHY OF THE FERMI-LAT gamma-RAY DIFFUSE EXTRAGALACTIC SIGNAL VIA CROSS CORRELATIONS WITH GALAXY CATALOGS
	Xia JQ(夏俊卿); Xia, JQ; Cuoco, A; Branchini, E; Viel, M
	2015
发表期刊	ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES (IF:8.955[JCR-2016],10.287[5-Year])
ISSN	0067-0049
EISSN	1538-4365
卷号	217 期号:1 页码:15
通讯作者	夏俊卿
文章类型	Article
摘要	Building on our previous cross-correlation analysis (Xia et al. 2011) between the isotropic.-ray background (IGRB) and different tracers of the large-scale structure of the universe, we update our results using 60 months of data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi). We perform a cross-correlation analysis both in configuration and spherical harmonics space between the IGRB and objects that may trace the astrophysical sources of the IGRB: QSOs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) DR6, the SDSS DR8 Main Galaxy Sample, luminous red galaxies (LRGs) in the SDSS catalog, infrared-selected galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and radio galaxies in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS). The benefit of correlating the Fermi-LAT signal with catalogs of objects at various redshifts is to provide tomographic information on the IGRB, which is crucial in separating the various contributions and clarifying its origin. The main result is that, unlike in our previous analysis, we now observe a significant (>3.5 sigma) cross-correlation signal on angular scales smaller than 1 degrees in the NVSS, 2MASS, and QSO cases and, at lower statistical significance (similar to 3.0 sigma), with SDSS galaxies. The signal is stronger in two energy bands, E > 0.5 GeV and E > 1 GeV, but it is also seen at E > 10 GeV. No cross-correlation signal is detected between Fermi data and the LRGs. These results are robust against the choice of the statistical estimator, estimate of errors, map cleaning procedure, and instrumental effects. Finally, we test the hypothesis that the IGRB observed by Fermi-LAT originates from the summed contributions of three types of unresolved extragalactic sources: BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs), flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), and star-forming galaxies (SFGs). We find that a model in which the IGRB is mainly produced by SFGs (72(-37)(+23) 2 sigma errors), with BL Lacs and FSRQs giving a minor contribution, provides a good fit to the data. We also consider a possible contribution from misaligned active galactic nuclei, and we find that, depending on the details of the model and its uncertainty, they can also provide a substantial contribution, partly degenerate with the SFG one.
关键词	cosmology: observations cosmology: theory gamma rays: diffuse background large-scale structure of universe
学科领域	Astronomy & Astrophysics
DOI	10.1088/0067-0049/217/1/15
收录类别	SCI ; INSPIREHEP ; ADS
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Astronomy & Astrophysics
WOS类目	Astronomy & Astrophysics
WOS记录号	WOS:000353466600015
ADS Bibcode	2015ApJS..217...15X
ADS URL	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJS..217...15X
ADS引文	https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJS..217...15X/citations
INSPIRE ID	1353634
INSPIRE URL	https://inspirehep.net/literature/1353634
引用统计	正在获取... 被引频次：53 [INSPIRE] 被引频次：57 [ADS]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	https://ir.ihep.ac.cn/handle/311005/228297
专题	中国科学院高能物理研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xia JQ,Xia, JQ,Cuoco, A,et al. TOMOGRAPHY OF THE FERMI-LAT gamma-RAY DIFFUSE EXTRAGALACTIC SIGNAL VIA CROSS CORRELATIONS WITH GALAXY CATALOGS[J]. ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES,2015,217(1):15.
APA	夏俊卿,Xia, JQ,Cuoco, A,Branchini, E,&Viel, M.(2015).TOMOGRAPHY OF THE FERMI-LAT gamma-RAY DIFFUSE EXTRAGALACTIC SIGNAL VIA CROSS CORRELATIONS WITH GALAXY CATALOGS.ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES,217(1),15.
MLA	夏俊卿,et al."TOMOGRAPHY OF THE FERMI-LAT gamma-RAY DIFFUSE EXTRAGALACTIC SIGNAL VIA CROSS CORRELATIONS WITH GALAXY CATALOGS".ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 217.1(2015):15.