{"paper":{"title":"EBL Inhomogeneity and Hard-Spectrum Gamma-Ray Sources","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["astro-ph.CO"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Hassan Abdalla, Markus Boettcher (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)","submitted_at":"2017-01-04T10:39:23Z","abstract_excerpt":"The unexpectedly hard very-high-energy (VHE; $E > 100$ GeV) $\\gamma$-ray spectra of a few distant blazars have been interpreted as evidence for a reduction of the $\\gamma\\gamma$ opacity of the Universe due to the interaction of VHE $\\gamma$-rays with the extragalactic background light (EBL) compared to the expectation from our current knowledge of the density and cosmological evolution of the EBL. One of the suggested solutions to this problem consisted of the inhomogeneity of the EBL. In this paper, we study the effects of such inhomogeneities on the energy density of the EBL (which then also"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1701.00956","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}