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Gamma-ray luminosity function of BL Lac objects and contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background

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arxiv 1909.07542 v1 pith:UB4IICOK submitted 2019-09-17 astro-ph.HE hep-ph

Gamma-ray luminosity function of BL Lac objects and contribution to the extragalactic gamma-ray background

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keywords lacsgamma-rayluminositymodelevolutionbackgrounddensityspectra
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Using a significantly enlarged \textit{Fermi}-LAT BL Lac objects (BL Lacs) sample, we construct the gamma-ray luminosity function (GLF) of BL Lacs, by the joint use of the space density distribution and source counts distribution. We use three well-studied forms of the GLF, i.e., the forms of pure density evolution (PDE), pure luminosity evolution (PLE) and luminosity-dependent density evolution (LDDE). The Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique is used to constrain model parameters. Our results suggest that LDDE model can give the best description for the BL Lac GLF. And the model shows that the BL Lacs with a harder GeV spectrum and a less luminosity evolve as strongly as FSRQs, and the evolution decreases as increasing luminosity. We also model the average photon spectra of BL Lacs with a double power laws model. Using this modeled spectra, BL Lacs contribute $ \sim 20\%$ of the total extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) at $E>100$ MeV, $\sim 100\%$ of the EGB at $E>50$ GeV, and the unresolved BL Lacs contribute $\sim 20 \%$ of the isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background (IGRB) at $E>100$ MeV. A prediction of the TeV EGB spectra are given, which may be tested by the future detectors.

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