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Cosmic Rays and Gamma Ray Bursts From Microblazars

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Highly relativistic jets from merger and accretion induced collapse of compact stellar objects, which may produce the cosmological gamma ray bursts (GRBs), are also very efficient and powerful cosmic ray accelerators. The expected luminosity, energy spectrum and chemical composition of cosmic rays from Galactic GRBs, most of which do not point in our direction, can explain the observed properties of Galactic cosmic rays.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9809163,
  title  = {Cosmic Rays and Gamma Ray Bursts From Microblazars},
  author = {Arnon Dar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9809163},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Cosmic rays above the GZK cutoff will be discussed in a separate publication