A novel method for measuring the extragalactic background light: Fermi application to the lobes of Fornax a

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 686, Issue 1 PART 2, 2008, Pages

  Georganopoulos, Markos ^a,b   Sambruna, Rita M ^b   Kazanas, Demosthenes ^b   Cillis, Analia N ^b   Cheung, Chi C ^b   Perlman, Eric S ^c   Blundell, Katherine M ^d   Davis, David S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active; Diffuse radiation; Galaxies; General; Nonthermal; Quasars; Radiation mechanisms; X rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 60349129457     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592833     Document Type: Article

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