Published June 2020 | Version v1
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$\gamma$-Cascade: A Simple Program to Compute Cosmological Gamma-Ray Propagation

  • 1. University of Chicago

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Modeling electromagnetic cascades during gamma-ray transport is important in many applications within astrophysics. This document introduces $\gamma$-Cascade, a publicly available Mathematica package which allows users to calculate observed gamma-ray fluxes from point sources as well as from a distribution of sources. $\gamma$-Cascade semi-analytically computes the effects of electromagnetic interactions during gamma-ray transport.

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Physics