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A posteriori anisotropy study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) has shown evidence of excess of cosmic ray particles above 55 EeV within $18^{\circ}$ of the direction of the radio galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang , Wei Wang , A. M. Taylor

Ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), with energies above ~6 x 10^19 eV, seem to show a weak correlation with the distribution of matter relatively near to us in the universe. It has earlier been proposed that UHECRs could be accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Gopal-Krishna , Peter L. Biermann , Vitor de Souza , Paul J. Wiita

We demonstrate that the energy spectra of Ultra High Energy Cosmic rays (UHECR) as observed by AGASA, Fly's Eye, HiRes and Yakutsk detectors, have the imprints of UHE proton interaction with the CMB radiation in the form of the dip at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Berezinsky , A. Z. Gazizov , S. I. Grigorieva

We consider the recent results on UHECR (Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray) composition and their distribution in the sky from ten EeV energy (the dipole anisotropy) up to the highest UHECR energies and their clustering maps: UHECR have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-05 Daniele Fargion , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini , Maxim Yu. Khlopov

UHE neutrinos may transfer highest cosmic-rays energies overcoming $2.75K^\circ$ BBR and radio-waves opacities (the GZK cut off) from most distant AGN sources at the age of the Universe. These UHE $\nu$ might scatter onto those (light and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniele Fargion , Barbara Mele

The discoveries of the GZK cutoff with the HiRes and Auger Observatories and the discovery by Auger of clustering of >~60 EeV ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) towards nearby <~75 Mpc) AGNs along the supergalactic plane establishes the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-10 Charles D. Dermer

In this paper we review all the up-to-date Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) events reported by AUGER, by Telescope Array (TA) and by AGASA in common coordinate maps. We also confirm our earliest (2008-2013) model, where UHECR are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-14 Daniele Fargion , Graziano Ucci , Pietro Oliva , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini

The most distant AGN, within the allowed GZK cut-off radius, have been recently candidate by many authors as the best location for observed UHECR origination. Indeed, the apparent homogeneity and isotropy of recent UHECR signals seems to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 D. Fargion , P. Oliva , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini

We argue that an astrophysical solution to UHECR problem is viable. The pectral features of extragalactic protons interacting with CMB are calculated in model-independent way. Using the power-law generation spectrum $\propto E^{-\gamma_g}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 V. Berezinsky , A. Z. Gazizov , S. I. Grigorieva

The significant anisotropy in the arrival directions of the 69 events with energy E> 55 EeV detected by Pierre Auger collaboration is located in the 20-degree region centered near Cen A. Not only the 2-point, but also the 3-point and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-21 Dmitri V. Semikoz

The association of at least a dozen ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) events with energy $\gtrsim 55$ EeV detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) from the direction of Centaurus-A, the nearest radio galaxy, supports the scenario of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Jagdish C. Joshi , Luis Salvador Miranda , Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang

We develop a model for explaining the data of Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR), in particular, the mass composition being steadily heavier with increasing energy from 3 EeV to 35 EeV. The model is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-11 R. Aloisio , V. Berezinsky , A. Gazizov

The ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) spectra measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) and the Telescope Array (TA) agree very well below $10^{19.5}$ eV but differ significantly at higher energies. We show that these differences…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-13 Alexander Korochkin , Dmitri Semikoz , Peter Tinyakov

The recent UHECR events by AUGER and the Telescope Array (TA) suggested that wide clusterings as the North and South, named Hot Spot, are related to near AGNs such as the one in M82 and Cen A. In the same frame since 2008 we assumed that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-26 Daniele Fargion , Pietro Oliva , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini , Daniele D Armiento , Paolo Paggi

The origins of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain an open question. Several attempts have been made to cross-correlate the arrival directions of the UHECRs with catalogs of potential sources, but no definite conclusion has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Alexander Khanin , Daniel J. Mortlock

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are atomic nuclei from space with vastly higher energies than any other particles ever observed. Their origin and chemical composition remain a mystery. As we show here, the large- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Chen Ding , Noemie Globus , Glennys R. Farrar

The Auger observatory has observed a possible correlation between Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) above 57 EeV and nearby candidate Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the Veron-Cetty Veron catalog (VCV). In this paper we report on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-02 William A. Terrano , Ingyin Zaw , Glennys R. Farrar

It is possible that ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are generated by active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but there is currently no conclusive evidence for this hypothesis. Several reports of correlations between the arrival directions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Laura J. Watson , Daniel J. Mortlock , Andrew H. Jaffe

We calculate for the nearest active galactic nucleus (AGN), Centaurus A, the flux of high energy cosmic rays and of accompanying secondary photons and neutrinos expected from hadronic interactions in the source. We use as two basic models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 M. Kachelriess , S. Ostapchenko , R. Tomas

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are considered to be one of the most appropriate sources of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, $E \gtrsim 10^{18} \mathrm{~eV}$). Radiogalaxy Virgo A (M87) in the centre of a cluster of galaxies Virgo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Oleh Kobzar , Bohdan Hnatyk , Volodymyr Marchenko , Oleksandr Sushchov