English
Related papers

Related papers: Cen A as TeV gamma-ray and possible UHE cosmic-ray…

200 papers

A several-step theoretical model is constructed to trace the origin of ultra high energy (UHE) $[1-2]$PeV neutrinos detected, recently, by the IceCube collaboration. Protons in the AGN magnetosphere, experiencing different gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-14 Z. Osmanov , S. Mahajan , G. Machabeli , N. Chkheidze

Ultra High Cosmic Rays) made by He-like lightest nuclei might solve the AUGER extragalactic clustering along Cen A. Moreover He like UHECR nuclei cannot arrive from Virgo because the light nuclei fragility and opacity above a few Mpc,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-24 Daniele Fargion

Recent experimental results from the IceCube detector and their phenomenological interpretation suggest that the magnetized turbulent corona of nearby X-ray luminous Seyfert galaxies can produce $\sim 1-10\,$TeV neutrinos via photo-hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-14 M. Lemoine , F. Rieger

In this paper we discuss models of the X-rays and TeV gamma-ray emission from BL Lac objects based on parallel electron-positron or electron-proton beams that form close to the central black hole owing to the strong electric fields…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Henric Krawczynski

A striking concentration of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) events observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory around the direction of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A revives the idea that radio galaxies may be dominant sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Jorg P. Rachen

The flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) at $E>10^{18.5}$ eV is believed to arise in plasma shock environments in extragalactic sources. In this paper, we present a systematic study of particle acceleration by relativistic shocks,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Athina Meli , Julia K. Becker , John J. Quenby

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are widely suggested as potential sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The kinetic energy of the jets dissipates, leading to the production of an enormous amount of $\gamma$-ray photons and possibly also…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 Xing-Fu Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Yi-Yun Huang , B. Theodore Zhang , Xiang-Yu Wang

The dip is a feature in the diffuse spectrum of ultra-high energy (UHE) protons caused by electron-positron pair production on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation. For a power-law generation spectrum $E^{-2.7}$, the calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Aloisio , V. Berezinsky , P. Blasi , A. Gazizov , S. Grigorieva , B. Hnatyk

The GeV-TeV {\gamma}-ray emission is observed from the direction of the source Sgr A^*, which is identified with the SMBH in the centre of our Galaxy. According to some models this {\gamma}-ray emission might originate in the very compact,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 W. Bednarek , J. Sitarek , M. Ulatowski

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

We describe a set of simulations of super-critical accretion onto a non-rotating supermassive BH. The accretion flow is radiation pressure dominated and takes the form of a geometrically thick disk with twin low-density funnels around the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the main candidates for ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) sources. However, while some theoretical and phenomenological works favor AGNs as the main sources, recent works have shown that using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-30 Cainã de Oliveira , Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Pedro Batista

Non-blazar radio-galaxies emitting in the very-high-energy (VHE; >100 GeV) regime offer a unique perspective for probing particle acceleration and emission processes in black hole (BH) accretion-jet systems. The misaligned nature of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-27 Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ramírez , Elisabete Maria de Gouveia Dal Pino , Rafael Alves Batista

Together, the Fermi-LAT and HESS have revealed the presence of an unusual GeV-TeV source coincident with Sgr A* at the Galactic center. Its high-energy emission appears to be bimodal, hinting at an energizing process more sophisticated than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Marco Fatuzzo , Fulvio Melia

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) at GZK cut off energy (E \geq 55 EeV eV) may keep sharp or diffused directionality wherever their composition is made by nucleon or light nuclei. AUGER UHECR (2007-2010) did show a mild clustering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-26 D. Fargion

Relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes, so-called as active galactic nuclei (AGNs), are known as the most energetic particle accelerators in the universe. However, the baryon loading efficiency onto the jets from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Yasuyuki T. Tanaka

The central parsec of the Galaxy contains dozens of massive stars with a cumulative mass loss rate of ~ 10^{-3} solar masses per year. Shocks among these stellar winds produce the hot plasma that pervades the central part of the galaxy. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eliot Quataert , Abraham Loeb

Powerful radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) with large Mpc-scale jets have been theoretically motivated as emitters of high-energy cosmic rays. Recent radio observations have established a populous class of young radio-loud galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-10 Hajime Takami , Shunsaku Horiuchi

A supermassive black hole has been found at the centre of nearly every galaxy observed with sufficient sensitivity. The masses of these black holes are observed to increase with either the total mass or the mean (random) velocity of the…

The observations of high energy $\gamma$-ray emission from the Galactic center (GC) by HESS, and recently by Fermi, suggest the cosmic ray acceleration in the GC and possibly around the supermassive black hole. In this work we propose a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-16 Yi-Qing Guo , Qiang Yuan , Cheng Liu , Ai-Feng Li