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We discuss the possibility of accurately estimating the source number density of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) using small-scale anisotropy in their arrival distribution. The arrival distribution has information on their source and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

We investigate the possibility that near future observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) can unveil their local source distribution, which reflects the observed local structures if their origins are astrophysical objects. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

If ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) originate from extragalactic sources, understanding the propagation of charged particles through the magnetized large scale structure (LSS) of the universe is crucial in the search for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Santabrata Das , Hyesung Kang , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho

We present numerical simulations on propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) above $10^{19}$ eV in a structured extragalactic magnetic field (EGMF) and simulate their arrival distributions at the earth. We use the IRAS PSCz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hajime Takami , Hiroyuki Yoshiguchi , Katsuhiko Sato

In this work, we present detailed simulations for propagation of ultra-high energy (UHE) heavy nuclei, with E > 60 EeV, within recent Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) models. We investigate the impacts of the regular and turbulent components…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz , G. Sigl

The propagation of UHECRs is affected by the intergalactic magnetic fields that were produced during the course of the large scale structure formation of the universe. We adopt a novel model where the large scale extragalactic magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hyesung Kang , Santabrata Das , Dongsu Ryu , Jungyeon Cho

The surprising isotropy of the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) sky makes it difficult to identify their sources. Observables such as energy spectrum, mass composition and arrival directions are affected by interactions with background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Simone Rossoni , Günter Sigl

We study the proton flux expected from sources of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) in the presence of regular extragalactic magnetic fields. It is assumed that a local source of ultra-high energy protons and the magnetic field are all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Todor Stanev , David Seckel , Ralph Engel

We studied how the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) affects the propagation of super-GZK protons that originate from extragalactic sources within the local GZK sphere. Toward this end, we set up hypothetical sources of ultra-high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Dongsu Ryu , Santabrata Das , Hyesung Kang

We estimate the local number density of sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) based on the statistical features of their arrival direction distribution. We calculate the arrival distributions of protons above $10^{19}$ eV taking…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

With the publicly available astrophysical simulation framework for propagating extraterrestrial UHE particles, CRPropa 3, it is now possible to study realistic UHECR source scenarios including deflections in Galactic and extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Arjen van Vliet , Rafael Alves Batista , Günter Sigl

The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remains an open question. Extragalactic magnetic fields can modify their propagation and, at sufficiently low energies, suppress the observed flux through the magnetic horizon (MH)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Allegra Firinu , Franco Vazza , Carmelo Evoli

In this work we simulate the propagation of Ultra High Energy (UHE) protons in the magnetised intergalactic medium of Galaxy Clusters (GCs). Differently from previous works on the subject, we trace proton trajectories in configurations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Rordorf , D. Grasso , K. Dolag

We have performed the detailed numerical simulations on the propagation of the UHE protons in the energy range $E=(10^{19.5} - 10^{22.0}$) eV in the relatively strong extra-galactic magnetic field with strength $B= (10, 100)$ nG within…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Y. Ide , S. Nagataki , S. Tsubaki , H. Yoshiguchi , K. Sato

We simulate propagation of cosmic ray nucleons above 10^{19} eV in scenarios where both the source distribution and magnetic fields within about 50 Mpc from us are obtained from an unconstrained large scale structure simulation. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guenter Sigl , Francesco Miniati , Torsten Ensslin

Protons of energies up to 10**20 eV can be subject to significant deflection and energy dependent time delay in lage scale extragalactic or halo magnetic fields of strengths comparable to current upper limits. By performing 3-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Martin Lemoine , Guenter Sigl , Angela V. Olinto , David N. Schramm

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are believed to originate from astrophysical sources, which should trace the large scale structure (LSS) of the universe. On the other hand, the magnetic field in the intergalactic space (IGMF), which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-29 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Santabrata Das

We report the results of 3D simulations of the trajectories of ultra-high energy protons and Fe nuclei (with energies $E = 4 \times 10^{19}$ and $2.5 \times 10^{20} eV$) propagating through the galactic magnetic field from the sources to…

We calculate the arrival direction distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with a new suite of models of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF), assuming sources follow the large-scale structure of the Universe. Compared to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-06 Teresa Bister , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Unger

We study signatures of a structured universe in the multi-pole moments, auto-correlation function, and cluster statistics of ultra-high energy cosmic rays above 10^19 eV. We compare scenarios where the sources are distributed homogeneously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Guenter Sigl , Francesco Miniati , Torsten Ensslin
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