Sentences with phrase «extragalactic background light»

That bath of ancient and young photons suffusing the Universe today is called the extragalactic background light (EBL).

The attached figure illustrates how energetic gamma rays (dashed lines) from a distant blazar strike photons of extragalactic background light (wavy lines) and produce pairs of electrons and positrons.

In addition to Bock, Zemcov, and Cooray, other coauthors of the paper, «On the Origin of Near - Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy,» are Joseph Smidt of Los Alamos National Laboratory; Toshiaki Arai, Toshio Matsumoto, Shuji Matsuura, and Takehiko Wada of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Yan Gong of UC Irvine; Min Gyu Kim of Seoul National University; Phillip Korngut, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech; Anson Lam of UCLA; Dae Hee Lee and Uk Won Nam of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI); Gael Roudier of JPL; and Kohji Tsumura of Tohoku University.

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The extragalactic infrared background represents all of the infrared light from all of the sources in the universe, «and there were some hints we didn't know where it was all coming from.»

Since astronomers don't know much about how strongly galactic dust polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.

The nature of this light, called the extragalactic gamma - ray background (EGB) has been debated since it was first measured by NASA's Small Astronomy Satellite 2 in the early 1970s.