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Prospects for future very high-energy gamma-ray sky survey: impact of secondary gamma rays
Very high-energy gamma-ray measurements of distant blazars can be well
explained by secondary gamma rays emitted by cascades induced by
ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. The secondary gamma rays will enable one to
detect a large number of blazars with future ground based gamma-ray telescopes
such as Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). We show that the secondary emission
process will allow CTA to detect 100, 130, 150, 87, and 8 blazars above 30 GeV,
100 GeV, 300 GeV, 1 TeV, and 10 TeV, respectively, up to assuming the
intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) strength G and an unbiased all
sky survey with 0.5 hr exposure at each Field of View, where total observing
time is hr. These numbers will be 79, 96, 110, 63, and 6 up to
in the case of G. This large statistics of sources will
be a clear evidence of the secondary gamma-ray scenarios and a new key to
studying the IGMF statistically. We also find that a wider and shallower survey
is favored to detect more and higher redshift sources even if we take into
account secondary gamma rays.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astroparticle Physic