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Background radiation astronomy, or background astronomy is a lecture that is part of the radiation astronomy department's radiation astronomy project. It has been included since the 2016 fall version of principles of radiation astronomy as a lecture.

This image depicts the two gigantic gamma-ray bubbles at the heart of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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Quiz

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1 Yes or No, The temperature distribution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) depends on whether or not there exist strong galactic winds.

Yes
No

2 Which of the following are theoretical radiation astronomy phenomena associated with a satellite in orbit around the Earth?

background radiation
a charged particle wind which emanates out of a beam line
gravity
near the barycenter for the Earth-Moon system
swirls of tan, green, blue, and white in the water
electric arcs
chlorophyll-containing phytoplankton aloft in the upper atmosphere

3 Yes or No, Outflow from the galaxy M82 of PAHs is embedded in a gaseous wind.

Yes
No

4 A cosmic ray may originate from what astronomical source?

Jupiter
the solar wind
the diffuse X-ray background
Mount Redoubt in Alaska
the asteroid belt
an active galactic nucleus

5 Yes or No, High energy neutrinos may interact to produce a large cascade of particles.

Yes
No

6 Complete the text:

Cosmic rays with energies over the

energy of 5 x 1019

interact with

photons to produce

via the   resonance.

7 Yes or No, The main components of background noise in neutron detection are high-energy photons, which aren't easily eliminated by physical barriers.

Yes
No

8 Which of the following are astrophysical components contributing to the sky background?

sets of point sources like faint asteroids
a charged particle wind
Galactic stars
far away galaxies
swirls of tan, green, blue, and white in the water
dust in the Solar System
dust in the Milky Way
dust in intergalactic space

9 Complete the text:

A proof-of-concept structure, including a control group, consists of

, procedures, findings, and

.

10 Which of the following are cold dark matter gamma rays?

expected signal comparable to background
annihilation radiation
a pronounced cosmic-ray halo
difficult to separate from a dark halo
dwarf spheroidals
weakly interacting massless particles

11 Complete the text:

The

(CIB) causes a significant attenuation for very high energy

through

Compton

,

and electron-positron pair production.

12 Which of the following are likely associated with a green emission line control group?

rocky objects
high peak to background
plasma objects
a G2V photosphere
rotation
watery surface
spots

13 With respect to electromagnetic radiation, which of the following are types of backgrounds?

cosmic optical background (COB)
cosmic dust
cosmic ultraviolet background (CUVB)
cosmic X-ray background (CXB)
cosmic cyanogen background (CCB)
cosmic infrared background (CIB)
rocky objects
diffuse extragalactic background radiation
extragalactic background light (EBL)
CMB
meson background
cosmic gamma-ray background (CGB)
cosmic radio background


Hypotheses

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Main resource: Hypotheses
  1. Sometimes the apparent background is actually the signal.

See also

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{{Radiation astronomy resources}}

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