Constraining the near-infrared background light from Population III stars using high-redshift gamma-ray sources

被引：18

作者：

Gilmore, Rudy C. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] SISSA, I-34136 Trieste, Italy

来源：

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 2012年 / 420卷 / 01期

关键词：

gamma-ray burst: general; stars: Population III; diffuse radiation; LYMAN-BREAK GALAXIES; LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE; DIRBE MINUS 2MASS; ULTRA DEEP FIELD; 1ST STARS; PIXEL STATISTICS; MASS FUNCTION; STELLAR MASS; MU-M; EVOLUTION;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.20092.x

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The Fermi satellite has detected GeV emission from a number of gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei at high redshift, z greater than or similar to 1.5. We examine the constraints that the detections of gamma-rays from several of these sources place on the contribution of Population III stars to the extragalactic background light. Emission from these primordial stars, particularly redshifted Lyman alpha emission, can interact with gamma-rays to produce electron-positron pairs and create an optical depth to the propagation of gamma-ray emission, and the detection of emission at >10 GeV can therefore constrain the production of this background. We consider two initial mass functions for the early stars and use derived spectral energy distributions for each to put upper limits on the star formation rate density of massive early stars from redshifts 6 to 10. Our limits are complementary to those set on a high near-infrared background flux by ground-based TeV-scale observations and show that current data can limit star formation in the late stages of re-ionization to less than 0.5 M-circle dot yr(-1) Mpc(-3). Our results also show that the total background flux from Population III stars must be considerably less than that from resolved galaxies at wavelengths below 1.5 mu m.

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页码：800 / 809

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