A novel method for measuring the extragalactic background light: Fermi application to the lobes of Fornax A
We describe a new method for measuring the extragalactic background light (EBL) through the detection of $\gamma$-ray inverse Compton (IC) emission due to scattering of the EBL photons off relativistic electrons in the lobes of radio galaxies. Our method has no free physical parameters and is a powe...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Institute of Physics Publishing
2008
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