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ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE
Volume 309, Issue 1-4, Pages 35-41Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/s10509-007-9480-1
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gamma rays; diffuse emission; gamma-ray sources
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Population synthesis is used to study the contribution from unresolved sources to the Galactic ridge emission measured by EGRET. Synthesized source counts are compared with the 3rd EGRET catalogue at low and high latitudes. For puisar-like populations, 5-10% of the emission > 100 MeV comes from sources below the EGRET threshold. A steeper luminosity function can increase this to 20% without violating EGRET source statistics. Less luminous populations can produce much higher values without being detected. Since the unresolved source spectrum is different from the interstellar spectrum, it could provide an explanation of the observed MeV and GeV excesses above the predictions, and we give an explicit example of how this could work.
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