An infrared background--TeV gamma-ray crisis?

Abstract

We consider the implications of the recent determination of the universal infrared background for the propagation of photons up to 20 TeV from the active galaxy Markarian 501 as observed by HEGRA. At 20 TeV the mean free path for photon-photon collisions on the infrared background would be much shorter than the distance to Markarian 501, implying absorption factors of the order of exp(-10), or greater, and consequently an excessive power output for this active galaxy. Possible solutions of this problem are discussed.

12 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B. Minor changes

References in corpus (19)

• Potential Sensitivity of Gamma-Ray Burster Observations to Wave Dispersion in Vacuo
• High-Energy Tests of Lorentz Invariance
• The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: I. Limits and Detections
• Limits to Quantum Gravity Effects from Observations of TeV Flares in Active Galaxies
• The COBE Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background: IV. Cosmological Implications
• Invariance Violation Extends the Cosmic Ray Horizon ?
• Probing The Structure of Space-Time with Cosmic Rays
• Multiwavelength Observations of a Flare from Markarian 501
• Severe Limits on Variations of the Speed of Light with Frequency
• An Empirically Based Calculation of the Extragalactic Infrared Background
• Constraints on the Extragalactic Infrared Background from Gamma Ray Observations of Mrk 501
• The Energy Spectrum of TeV Gamma-Rays from the Crab Nebula as measured by the HEGRA system of imaging air Cherenkov telescopes
• Probing Galaxy Formation with TeV Gamma Ray Absorption
• Multiwavelength observations of Mkn 501 during the 1997 high state
• Correlated intense X-ray and TeV activity of Mrk~501 in 1998 June
• The time averaged TeV energy spectrum of Mkn 501 of the extraordinary 1997 outburst as measured with the stereoscopic Cherenkov telescope system of HEGRA
• The physical parameters of Markarian 501 during flaring activity
• The Cosmic Ray Proton Spectrum determined with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov-Technique
• TeV Cherenkov Events as Bose-Einstein Gamma Condensations

Cited by in corpus (145)

• Relativity in space-times with short-distance structure governed by an observer-independent (Planckian) length scale
• The Cosmic Infrared Background: Measurements and Implications
• Quantum Spacetime Phenomenology
• A low level of extragalactic background light as revealed by gamma-rays from blazars
• Tests of Lorentz invariance: a 2013 update
• Planck-scale deformation of Lorentz symmetry as a solution to the UHECR and the TeV-$\gamma$ paradoxes
• Lorentz violation at high energy: concepts, phenomena and astrophysical constraints
• Implications of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Absorption II. Modification of gamma-ray spectra
• High-energy neutrinos in the context of multimessenger physics
• The CosmoVerse White Paper: Addressing observational tensions in cosmology with systematics and fundamental physics
• Doubly-Special Relativity: First Results and Key Open Problems
• Threshold effects and Planck scale Lorentz violation: combined constraints from high energy astrophysics
• First Detection of sub-PeV Diffuse Gamma Rays from the Galactic Disk: Evidence for Ubiquitous Galactic Cosmic Rays beyond PeV Energies
• Deformed Boost Transformations That Saturate at the Planck Scale
• Quantum symmetry, the cosmological constant and Planck scale phenomenology
• Robust Limits on Lorentz Violation from Gamma-Ray Bursts
• New limits on the density of the extragalactic background light in the optical to the far-infrared from the spectra of all known TeV blazars
• TeV candidate BL Lac objects
• Logarithmic nonlinearity in theories of quantum gravity: Origin of time and observational consequences
• New Tests of Lorentz Invariance Following from Observations of the Highest Energy Cosmic Gamma Rays
• The extragalactic background light, the Hubble constant, and anomalies: conclusions from 20 years of TeV gamma-ray observations
• TeV Astrophysics Constraints on Planck Scale Lorentz Violation
• A new interpretation of the gamma-ray observations of active galactic nuclei
• Prospects for constraining quantum gravity dispersion with near term observations
• Coproduct and star product in field theories on Lie-algebra non-commutative space-times
• Secondary photons and neutrinos from cosmic rays produced by distant blazars
• Modelling the TeV gamma-ray spectra of two low redshift AGNs: Mkn 501 and Mkn 421
• Formation of hard VHE gamma-ray spectra of blazars due to internal photon-photon absorption
• Simultaneous Constraints on the Spectrum of the Extragalactic Background Light and the Intrinsic Tev Spectra of Mrk 421, Mrk 501, and H1426+428
• Remnant for all Black Objects due to Gravity's Rainbow
• Constraints on the Intergalactic Magnetic Field with Gamma-Ray Observations of Blazars
• Absence of Black Holes at LHC due to Gravity's Rainbow
• Observational Limits on Quantum Geometry Effects
• Improved limit on quantum-spacetime modifications of Lorentz symmetry from observations of gamma-ray blazars
• Phenomenology of Doubly Special Relativity
• Topics in Noncommutative Geometry Inspired Physics
• Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology: Status and Prospects
• Radiation fields of disk, BLR and torus in quasars and blazars: implications for gamma-ray absorption
• de Sitter special relativity
• Extragalactic Gamma-ray Absorption and the Intrinsic Spectrum of Mkn 501 During the 1997 Flare
• Possible astrophysical probes of quantum gravity
• Modifications to Lorentz invariant dispersion in relatively boosted frames
• On detecting oscillations of gamma rays into axion-like particles in turbulent and coherent magnetic fields
• Space-time quantum solves three experimental paradoxes
• Inspecting absorption in the spectra of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources for insight into Lorentz invariance violation
• Quantum-gravity-motivated Lorentz-symmetry tests with laser interferometers
• Probes of Lorentz Violation
• Reanalysis of the high energy cutoff of the 1997 Mkn 501 TeV energy spectrum
• On the origin of highest energy gamma-rays from Mkn 501
• Photons to axion-like particles conversion in Active Galactic Nuclei
• Space-Time Foam Effects on Particle Interactions and the GZK Cutoff
• Astrophysical Limits on Lorentz Violation for All Charged Species
• On the detectability of Lorentz invariance violation through anomalous multi-TeV $\gamma$-ray spectra of blazars
• Gamma-rays from Blazars and the Extragalactic Background Light
• Modeling the Extragalactic Background Light and the Cosmic Star Formation History
• Phenomenology of Particle Production and Propagation in String-Motivated Canonical Noncommutative Spacetime
• Scalar field theory on $\kappa$-Minkowski space-time and Doubly Special Relativity
• Lorentz invariance violation induced threshold anomaly versus very-high energy cosmic photon emission from GRB 221009A
• Constraints on axion-like particle properties with very high energy gamma-ray observations of Galactic sources
• Cosmic Rays and the Search for a Lorentz Invariance Violation
• The CTA Sensitivity to Lorentz-Violating Effects on the Gamma-Ray Horizon
• Lorentz violation effects on astrophysical propagation of very high energy photons
• Infrared and ultraviolet cutoffs of quantum field theory
• de Sitter Relativity: a New Road to Quantum Gravity?
• Time structure of gamma-ray signals generated in line-of-sight interactions of cosmic rays from distant blazars
• Probing Quantum Gravity with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes
• Bethe-Heitler cascades as a plausible origin of hard spectra in distant TeV blazars
• Anisotropy test of the axion-like particle Universe opacity effect: a case for the Cherenkov Telescope Array
• Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Lorentz Violation
• Group velocity in noncommutative spacetime
• Interplay between curvature and Planck-scale effects in astrophysics and cosmology
• Axion-Photon Conversion of LHAASO Multi-TeV and PeV Photons
• Electromagnetic cascade masquerade: a way to mimic $\gamma$--axion-like particle mixing effects in blazar spectra
• Brany Liouville Inflation
• Introduction to Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology
• Lorentz Invariance Violation and the QED Formation Length
• Constraints on axion-like particles with the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with MAGIC
• Implications of Spacetime Quantization for the Bahcall-Waxman Neutrino Bound
• Have we already detected astrophysical symptoms of space-time noncommutativity ?
• Doubly-Special Relativity: Facts, Myths and Some Key Open Issues
• Axion-photon conversion of GRB221009A
• Classical mechanics of many particles defined on canonically deformed nonrelativistic space-time
• Astrophysical Bounds on Planck Suppressed Lorentz Violation
• Hořava-Lifshitz cosmology in light of new data
• Fundamental physics with blazar spectra: a critical appraisal
• Vacuum Cherenkov effect in logarithmic nonlinear quantum theory
• Comparison of relativity theories with observer-independent scales of both velocity and length/mass
• Energy Scale of Lorentz Violation in Rainbow Gravity
• Laboratory bounds on Lorentz symmetry violation in low energy neutrino physics
• Effect of axion-like particles on the spectrum of the extragalactic gamma-ray background
• Threshold anomalies of ultra-high energy cosmic photons due to Lorentz invariance violation
• Revisiting Lorentz invariance violation from GRB 221009A
• Lorentz violation in three-family neutrino oscillation
• Comments on Ultra-High-Energy Photons and D-Foam models
• Prospects for future very high-energy gamma-ray sky survey: impact of secondary gamma rays
• Transitive X-ray spectrum and PeV gamma-ray cutoff in the M87 jet: Electron "Pevatron"
• Gamma Ray Bursts as Probes of Quantum Gravity
• Searching for TeV Candidates in 4LAC High-synchrotron-peaked Frequency BL Lac Objects
• Canonical and Lie-algebraic twist deformations of $\kappa$-Poincare and contractions to $\kappa$-Galilei algebras
• Comment on "Noncommutativity as a Possible Origin of the Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Ray and the TeV Photon Paradoxes"
• Expected Signature For the Lorentz Invariance Violation Effects on $\gamma -\gamma$ Absorption
• Semileptonic B Decays at BABAR
• Is Physics Asking for a New Kinematics?
• Noncommutativity as a Possible Origin of the Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray and the TeV-photon Paradoxes
• Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era -- A review
• Ultra-high energy cosmic rays threshold in Randers-Finsler space
• Lagrange multiplier and Wess-Zumino variable as large extra dimensions in the torus universe
• Axion-Like Particle Searches with IACTs
• Lower Bound on the Cosmic TeV Gamma-ray Background Radiation
• Fundamental physics in space: a Quantum-Gravity perspective
• On conservative models of "the pair-production anomaly" in blazar spectra at Very High Energies
• Deformed Special Relativity with an invariant minimum speed as an explanation of the cosmological constant
• Absorption of TeV Photons and $\kappa$-deformed Poincaré algebra
• Lorentz-violating dynamics in the pre-Planckian Universe
• Lorentz breaking Effective Field Theory and observational tests
• Threshold anomalies in Horava-Lifshitz-type theories
• The local-filament pattern in the anomalous transparency of the Universe for energetic gamma rays
• Noncommutative field with constant background fields and neutral fermion
• Black hole evaporation within a momentum-dependent metric
• A brief review of a modified relativity that explains cosmological constant
• Search for anomalous features in gamma-ray blazar spectra corrected for the absorption on the extragalactic background light
• Puzzles in astrophysics in the past and present
• Propagation of very-high-energy $\gamma$-rays from distant blazars
• The Mass of the Neutrinos
• Ultra high energy cosmic ray sources & experimental results
• CPT-violating neutrino oscillations
• Probes for String-Inspired Foam, Lorentz, and CPT Violations in Astrophysics
• Constraints on Hořava-Lifshitz gravity from GRB 170817A
• Could the photon dispersion relation be non-linear ?
• CERN LEP2 constraint on 4D QED having dynamically generated spatial dimension
• Generating of additional force terms in Newton equation by twist-deformed Hopf algebras and classical symmetries
• Modified Lorentz transformations in deformed special relativity
• A Method to Search for Local Sources of Short Duration Bursts of Superhigh Energy Gamma Rays
• Constraining the Equation of State of Dark Energy with Gamma Rays
• Effect of the Minimal Length on Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Relativistic Ideal Bose Gas
• Generalized twist deformations of Poincare and Galilei quantum groups
• Particle Creation from Vacuum by Lorentz Violation
• A Note on TeV Cerenkov Events as Bose-Einstein Gamma Condensations
• Some Features of Scattering Problem in a $\kappa$-Deformed Minkowski Spacetime
• Probing Physics at Extreme Energies with Cosmic Ultra-High Energy Radiation
• Equivalent forces in Newton equation from twist deformations and noninertial coordinate frames
• Cascade Model of an Anomaly in Blazar Spectra at Very High Energy
• Twisting kappa-deformed phase space
• The Mysteries of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
• Spectra of disc operator for twisted acceleration-enlarged Newton-Hooke space-times