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We study the production of cosmogenic neutrinos and photons during the extragalactic propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). For a wide range of models in cosmological evolution of source luminosity, composition and maximum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-16 Guillaume Decerprit , Denis Allard

The interaction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with pervasive photon fields generates associated cosmogenic fluxes of neutrinos and photons due to photohadronic and photonuclear processes taking place in the intergalactic medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-07 Rafael Alves Batista , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Bruno Lago , Kumiko Kotera

We study possible correlations between ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), observed by Auger, AGASA and Yakutsk, and nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and $Fermi$ sources. We consider the deflection effects by a Galactic magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Yun-Ying Jiang , L. G. Hou , J. L. Han , X. H. Sun , Wei Wang

If ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are accelerated at astrophysical point sources, the identification of such sources can be achieved if there is some kind of radiation at observable wavelengths that may be associated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Ferrigno , P. Blasi , D. De Marco

The Pierre Auger observatory has presented evidence that the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies in excess of 6x10^7 TeV may be correlated with nearby active galactic nuclei (AGN). In this context we revisit a suggestion based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-28 Francis Halzen , Aongus O'Murchadha

We explore inferences on ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) source environments -- constrained by the spectrum and composition of UHECRs and non-observation of extremely high energy neutrinos -- and their implications for the observed high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-24 Marco Stein Muzio , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Unger

Fast-spinning newborn pulsars are intriguing candidate sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The acceleration of particles with a given composition in a fraction of the extragalactic pulsar population can give a consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-09 Ke Fang , Kumiko Kotera , Kohta Murase , Angela V. Olinto

We investigated the possibility of acceleration of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in nearby active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using archival multi-wavelength observational data, and then we constrained their physical conditions, i.e.,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-29 Mika Kagaya , Hideaki Katagiri , Tatsuo Yoshida , Arisa Fukuda

The sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have been stubbornly elusive. However, the latest report of the Pierre Auger Observatory provides a compelling indication for a possible correlation between the arrival directions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Luis Alfredo Anchordoqui

We discuss recent results in neutrino astronomy and their implications for the cosmic-ray acceleration in relativistic outflows, such as in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), and Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Walter Winter

We probe the possibility that Centaurus A (Cen A) is a point source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) observed by PAO, through the statistical analysis of the arrival direction distribution. For this purpose, we set up the Cen A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Hang Bae Kim

Centaurus A, the cosmic ray accelerator a few Mpc away from us is possibly one of the nearest sources of extremely high energy cosmic rays. We investigate whether the gamma ray data currently available from Centaurus A in the GeV-TeV energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Nayantara Gupta

We investigate ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) as potential sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We focus on cosmic-ray nuclei, an aspect not explored previously. These large-scale,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-02 Domenik Ehlert , Foteini Oikonomou , Enrico Peretti

Centaurus B (Cen B) is one of the closest and brightest radio-loud galaxy in the southern sky. This radio galaxy, proposed as a plausible candidate for accelerating ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), is near the highest-energy neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 N. Fraija , M. Araya , A. Galvan-Gamez , J. A. de Diego

We update the previous analysis of correlation between ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) and active galactic nuclei (AGN), using 69 UHECR events with energy $E\ge55\,{\rm EeV}$ released in 2010 by Pierre Auger observatory and 862 AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-04 Hang Bae Kim , Jihyun Kim

In the light of the recently predicted isotopic composition of the kpc-scale jet in Centaurus A, we re-investigate whether this source could be responsible for some of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-27 Sarka Wykes , Andrew M. Taylor , Justin D. Bray , Martin J. Hardcastle , Michael Hillas

Cosmic rays (CRs) are protons and atomic nuclei that flow into our Solar system and reach the Earth with energies of up to ~10^21 eV. The sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with E >~ 10^19 eV remain unknown, although there…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander Khanin , Daniel Mortlock

(Abridged) Data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) provide evidence for anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays (CRs) with energies >57 EeV that suggests a correlation with the positions of AGN located within ~75…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Igor V. Moskalenko , Lukasz Stawarz , Troy A. Porter , Chi C. Cheung

The ultra--high energy cosmic rays recently detected by several air shower experiments could have an extragalactic origin. In this case, the nearest active galaxy Centaurus A might be the source of the most energetic particles ever detected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-23 G. E. Romero , J. A. Combi , S. E. Perez Bergliaffa , L. A. Anchordoqui

Observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) -whose energy exceeds $10^20$eV- is still a puzzle for modern astrophysics. The transfer of more than 16 Joules to a microscopic particle can hardly be achieved, even in the most powerful…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Antoine Letessier-Selvon