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a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 9 7 0 8 1 8 2 v 1 2 0 A u g 1 9 9 7 Absorption of High Energy Gamma Rays by Interactions with Extragalactic Starlight Photons at High Redshifts M.H. Salamon? and F.W. Stecker? ?Physics Department, University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT 84112 ?Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 02271 Abstract. We extend earlier calculations of the attenuation suffered by γ-rays during their propagation from extragalactic sources, obtaining new extinction curves for γ-rays down to 10 GeV in energy, from sources up to a redshift