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Implications of axion-like particles from the Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. observations of PG 1553+113 and PKS 2155−304 * * Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFA0400200) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U1738209, 11851303)

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We investigate the axion-like particle (ALP)-photon oscillation effect in the high-energy -ray spectra of PG 1553+113 and PKS 2155−304 measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. The choice of extragalactic background light… Click to show full abstract

We investigate the axion-like particle (ALP)-photon oscillation effect in the high-energy -ray spectra of PG 1553+113 and PKS 2155−304 measured by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. The choice of extragalactic background light (EBL) model, which induces the attenuation effect in observed -ray spectra, affects the ALP implications. For the ordinary EBL model that prefers a null hypothesis, we set constraints on the ALP-photon coupling constant at 95% C.L. as for the ALP mass neV. We also consider the CIBER observation of the cosmic infrared radiation, which shows an excess at wavelengths of m after the substraction of foregrounds. High-energy gamma-rays from extragalactic sources at high redshifts would suffer from a more significant attenuation effect caused by this excess. In this case, we find that the ALP-photon oscillation would improve the fit to the observed spectra of PKS 2155−304 and PG 1553+113 and find a favored parameter region at 95% C.L..

Keywords: 2155 304; axion like; 1553 113; 113 pks; pks 2155

Journal Title: Chinese Physics C
Year Published: 2021

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