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Cosmic Star Formation Rate From Gamma-Ray Attenuation

T. M. Kneiske, K. Mannheim

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9912450

Abstract

We compute the attenuation of gamma-rays from remote quasars due to interactions with ambient low-energy photons produced by stars in galaxies and show that the next-generation gamma ray telescopes can probe the cosmic star formation rate at high redshifts.

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