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The Cosmological Diffuse γ-Ray Background: Myth or Reality?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

P. Laurent
P. Laurent*
Affiliation:
CEA/DSM/DAPNIA/Sap, CE Saclay, 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, FRANCE

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This paper is by no means a critical review of what have been thought, calculated or written about the cosmological diffuse γ-ray background. More simply, it is intended to tell its story, in order to answer a may be more historical than astronomical question:

“How ideas about the cosmological diffuse γ-ray background has evolved since the beginning of the space era ?”

Type
Part I: Invited Reviews
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 168: Examining the Big Bang and the Diffuse Background Radiations , 1996 , pp. 271 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996 

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