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arxiv: 1412.3171 · v1 · submitted 2014-12-10 · 🌌 astro-ph.CO · astro-ph.HE· hep-ph· hep-th

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Intergalactic magnetic field spectra from diffuse gamma rays

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keywords magneticcorrelatorsfermi-latfieldgammaintergalacticparity-oddtashiro
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Non-vanishing parity-odd correlators of gamma ray arrival directions observed by Fermi-LAT indicate the existence of a helical intergalactic magnetic field (Tashiro et al.2013). We successfully test this hypothesis using more stringent cuts of the data, Monte Carlo simulations with Fermi-LAT time exposure information, separate analyses for the northern and southern galactic hemispheres, and confirm predictions made in Tashiro & Vachaspati (2014). With some further technical assumptions, we show how to reconstruct the magnetic helicity spectrum from the parity-odd correlators.

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