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EGRET Observations of the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Emission

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 9 7 0 9 2 5 7 v 1 2 5 S e p 1 9 9 7 EGRET Observations of the Extragalactic Gamma Ray Emission P. Sreekumar1,2, D. L. Bertsch1, B. L. Dingus3 J. A. Esposito1,2 C. E. Fichtel1, R. C. Hartman1, S. D. Hunter1, G. Kanbach4, D. A. Kniffen5, Y. C. Lin6, H. A. Mayer-Hasselwander4, P. F. Michelson6, C. von Montigny7, A. Mu?cke4, R. Mukherjee8, P. L. Nolan6, M. Pohl9, O. Reimer4, E. Schneid10, J. G. Stacy11, F. W. Stecker1, D. J. Thompson1, T. D. Willis6 Received ; accepted 1NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 660, Greenbelt MD 20771 2Universities Space Research Association 3University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 4Max-Planck Institut fu?r Extraterrestrische Physik, 8046 Garching bei Mu?nchen, GERMANY 5Hampden-Sydney College, P. O. Box 862, Hampden-Sydney VA 23943 6W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 7Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Konigstuhl, Heidelberg, GERMANY 8Barnard College, New York, NY 10027 9Danish Space Research Institute 10Northrop Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Mail Stop A01-26, Bethpage NY 11714 11University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03428 – 2 – ABSTRACT The all-sky survey in high-energy gamma rays (E30 MeV) carried out by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) aboard the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory provides a unique opportunity to examine in detail the diffuse gamma-ray emission. The observed diffuse emission has a Galactic component arising from cosmic-ray interactions with the local interstellar gas and radiation as well an almost uniformly distributed component that is generally believed to originate outside the Galaxy. Through a careful study and removal of the Galactic diffuse emission, the flux, spectrum and uniformity of the extragalactic emission is deduced. The analysis indicates that the extragalactic emission is well described by a power law photon spectrum with an index of –(2.10±0.03) in the 30 MeV to 100 GeV energy range. No large scal