Electromagnetic cascades propagating from low-redshift blazars

ORELLANA, M.; PELLIZA, L.; ROMERO, GUSTAVO E; TUEROS, MATÍAS JORGE; MEDINA, M. C.; PEDROSA, S.

Congreso; 57 Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Astronomía; 2014

It has been established that the Extragalactic Background Light attenuates the very high-energy photons emitted by blazars through pair production. The pairs are deflected by the Extragalactic Magnetic Field (EGMF) and cooled down by Inverse Compton scattering with the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) photons while they develop an electromagnetic cascade. The EGMF may also take out energy from the pairs in the form of synchrotron radiation. The originally emitted spectrum, the source extent and the arriving time of the photons are modified by such cascades. In order to study this problem we assume the blazar original emission to follow a power-law with exponential cutoff, and track the three-dimensional trajectories of each particle and photon in the cascade. In this work we describe the results of numerical simulations regarding the -ray propagation through Mpc scales, making focus on the construction of the outcoming spectrum which results from the energy conservation and thus combines the information from the different channels of energy losses. Different spectra arise when varying the EGMF strength.