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[[Image:Extragalactic-background-power-density.jpg|Figure 1: thumb|321px|right|Schematic representation of the spectral energy distribution of the DEBRA. The vertical axis quantity is the [[spectral radiometric quantity|spectral]] [[spectral radiance|radiance]] ''λL''_e''λ''.]]

The '''diffuse extragalactic background radiation''' (DEBRA) refers to the diffuse photon field from extragalactic origin that fill our Universe. It contains photons over ∼ 20 decades of energy from ~10⁻⁷ eV to ~100 GeV. The origin and the physical processes involved are different within every wavelength range. There are plenty of observational evidences that support the existence of the DEBRA.<ref>{{cite journal

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FigureThe 1figure shows a schematic picture, based on many different data sets, of the spectral intensity (also called spectral radiance) multiplied by wavelength of the DEBRA over all the electromagnetic spectrum. This representation is convenient because the area inside the curve is the energy. The nature and history of the universe is coded in this radiation field and any realistic cosmological model must be able to describe it. Understanding the DEBRA is a major challenge of modern cosmology with huge consequences in other fields of astrophysics, therefore extraordinary efforts are being put by theoreticians, observers, and instrumentalists to do so.

[[Image:Extragalactic-background-power-density.jpg|Figure 1: Schematic representation of the spectral energy distribution of the DEBRA.]]

==Regions of the DEBRA==