GLAST and the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background

1999/09/09 by F. W. Stecker, M. H. Salamon
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph

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published as Astrophys.Space Sci. 261 (1999) 327-330 · 4 pages, 2 eps figures, published in Proc. 26th ICRC, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999, Vol. 3, pg. 313

arxiv created 1999/09/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We show that GLAST should be able to support or rule out the unresolved-blazar hypothesis for the origin of the diffuse, extragalactic gamma-ray background.

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