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On the Origin of the MeV Gamma-Ray Background
F. W. Stecker, M. H. Salamon, C. Done
In this paper, we suggest a new hypothesis for explaining the spectrum of the extragalactic MeV gamma-ray background as observed by COMPTEL and SMM. We propose that both the flux l…
astro-ph1999
Extragalactic Absorption of High Energy Gamma-Rays
F. W. Stecker
The pair-production absorption of high-energy gamma-rays by intergalactic low-energy photons is expected to produce a high-energy cutoff in the spectra of extragalactic sources whi…