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Contribution of High-energy GRB Emissions to the Spectrum of the Isotropic Diffuse γ-Ray Background
Author(s) -
Yuhua Yao,
Xiao-Chuan Chang,
Hongbo Hu,
Yibin Pan,
Hai-Ming Zhang,
Huayang Li,
Bing-Qiang Qiao,
Ming-Ming Kang,
Chaowen Yang,
Wei Liu,
Yi-Qing Guo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the astrophysical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.376
H-Index - 489
eISSN - 1538-4357
pISSN - 0004-637X
DOI - 10.3847/1538-4357/abb024
Subject(s) - physics , astrophysics , gamma ray burst , fermi gamma ray space telescope , afterglow , spectral index , astronomy , telescope , spectral line
High-precision measurement of the isotropic diffuse γ -ray background (IGRB) has been extrapolated to the TeV energy region using the Fermi-LAT experiment. Various kinds of astrophysical sources are candidates for its origin. However, a consensus on the dominant source has been difficult to reach. Recent observations of the γ- ray emission of γ- ray bursts (GRBs), denoted as the synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) component in the afterglow phase, in the sub-TeV energy region by MAGIC and HESS experiments shed new light on this topic. In this work, we revisit the contribution from the SSC component of GRBs to the IGRB. First, a sample set of GRB events is obtained and examined using observations from Fermi-LAT. Second, the SSC component, described by the energy ratio R ext and spectral index β ext , is assigned to every GRB event. We can obtain the total spectrum contribution based on this GRB sample. We find that when R ext and β ext reach ∼20% and −1.6, respectively, the contribution from GRB emission dominates in the energy region of hundreds of GeV. We hope that the LHAASO and CTA experiments under construction can observe a large number of GRBs to fix those parameters in coming years. A surviving tail is expected, which can serve to check our calculations based on future satellite experiments such as HERD and GAMMA400.

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