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The propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays in Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields is investigated in the present paper. The motion of charged particles of different energies and chemical composition is simulated using different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Oleksandr Sushchov , Oleh Kobzar , Bohdan Hnatyk , Volodymyr Marchenko

The full-sky multipole coefficients of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) flux have been measured for the first time by the Pierre Auger and Telescope Array collaborations using a joint data set with E > 10 EeV. We calculate these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 P. G. Tinyakov , F. R. Urban

The origin and composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain a mystery. The common lore is that UHECRs are deflected from their primary directions by the Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields. Here we describe an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Andres Aramburo Garcia , Kyrylo Bondarenko , Alexey Boyarsky , Dylan Nelson , Annalisa Pillepich , Anastasia Sokolenko

We study about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on the recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-05 Kohta Murase , Hajime Takami

Ultra high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) from distant sources interact with intergalactic radiation fields, leading to their spallation and attenuation. They are also deflected in intergalactic magnetic fields (IGMFs), particularly those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Ellis R. Owen , Qin Han , Kinwah Wu

The standard assumption about the influence of the turbulent intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) on the images of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) sources is that the latter are formed in a random walk mode in the deflection angle. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 K. Dolgikh , A. Korochkin , G. Rubtsov , D. Semikoz , I. Tkachev

We study the effect of diffusion of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) protons in the presence of turbulent magnetic fields in the light of the $f(R)$ theory of gravity. The $f(R)$ theory of gravity is a successful modified theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-30 Swaraj Pratim Sarmah , Umananda Dev Goswami

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

Deflection of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) may be sufficiently strong to hinder identification of the UHECR source distribution. A common method for determining the effect of GMF models on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-18 Michael S. Sutherland , Brian M. Baughman , James J. Beatty

We considered propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) through the galaxy. We investigated models with sources of UHECR distributed in the same way as Cold Dark Matter (CDM) in a self-consistent way, taking into account both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. E. Kalashev , V. A. Kuzmin , D. V. Semikoz

Context: As more and more data are collected by cosmic ray experiments such as the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array (TA), the search for the sources of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) continues. Already we have some…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-06 Laurentiu I. Caramete , Oana Tascau , Peter L. Biermann , Todor Stanev

We investigate the deflections of UHE protons by Galactic magnetic field(GMF) using four conventional GMF models in order to discuss the positional correlation between the arrival distribution of UHECRs and their sources. UHE protons coming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-10 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

We study the effects of the galactic magnetic field on the ultra high energy cosmic ray propagation. We show that the deflections of the cosmic ray trajectories can have many important implications such as (de)magnification of the cosmic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Diego Harari , Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet

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 propagation trajectories of the highest energy cosmic rays (HECRs) are deflected by not only intergalactic magnetic field but also Galactic magnetic field (GMF). These magnetic fields can weaken the positive correlation between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

(abridged) Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are extremely energetic charged particles with energies surpassing $10^{18}$ eV. Their sources remain elusive, obscured by deflections caused by the Galactic magnetic field (GMF). This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 Alexandros Tsouros , Abhijit B. Bendre , Gordian Edenhofer , Torsten Enßlin , Philipp Frank , Michalis Mastorakis , Vasiliki Pavlidou

We study the influence of the random part of the Galactic magnetic field on the propagation of ultra high-energy cosmic rays. Within very mild approximations about the properties of the electron density fluctuations in the Galaxy we are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-25 M. S. Pshirkov , P. G. Tinyakov , F. R. Urban

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are the highest energy messengers in the universe, with energies up to $10^{20}$ eV. Studies of astrophysical particles (nuclei, electrons, neutrinos and photons) at their highest observed energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-25 Joao de Mello Neto

Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory show energy dependent chemical composition of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with a growing fraction of heavy elements at high energies. This points to a non-negligible contribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Kusenko

The origins and acceleration mechanisms of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are unknown. Many models attribute their extreme energies to powerful astrophysical jets. Understanding whether jet geometry -- specifically the opening angle…