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The puzzle of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) still remains unresolved. With the progress in preparation of next generation experiments (AUGER, EUSO, OWL) grows also the importance of directional analysis of existing and future…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Prouza , Radomir Smida

We study the influence of the regular component of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) on the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We find that, if the angular resolution of current experiments has to be fully…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kachelriess , P. D. Serpico , M. Teshima

Since ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are electrically charged particles, they are deflected by magnetic fields. Those magnetic fields can act as lenses, altering their trajectories and (de)magnifying their apparent source images.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-24 Danelise de Oliveira Franco , Günter Sigl

We propose a new way to detect individual bright Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) sources above background if the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) gives the main contribution to UHECR deflections. This method can be directly applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-13 G. Giacinti , D. V. Semikoz

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

Extensive simulations of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) propagation in the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) have been performed, and the results are presented. The use of different available models of the large-scale GMF and/or…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-01-23 Serguei Vorobiov , Mustafa Hussain , Darko Veberič

(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

(abridged) Ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are highly energetic charged particles with energies exceeding $10^{18}$ eV. Identifying their sources and production mechanism can provide insight into many open questions in astrophysics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Alexandros Tsouros , Gordian Edenhofer , Torsten Enßlin , Michalis Mastorakis , Vasiliki Pavlidou

The propagation trajectories of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are inevitably affected by Galactic magnetic field (GMF). Because of the inevitability, the importance of the studies of the propagation in GMF have increased to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Hajime Takami

Locating the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) still remains a difficult puzzle for modern astrophysics. A major hurdle in the search for the sources is the fact that UHECRs are deflected by the Galactic magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-12 G. Magkos , V. Pavlidou

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 present the results of simulations of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) propagation in the Galactic magnetic field (GMF). Different assumptions on the large-scale GMF structure and/or primary particle lead to distinctly different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-08 S. Vorobiov , M. Hussain , D. Veberič

We consider the effects of the Galactic magnetic field on the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). By employing two methods of trajectory simulation, we investigate the possibility that UHECRs are produced within the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean O'Neill , Angela V. Olinto , Pasquale Blasi

We study the deflections of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in several widely used models of the coherent Galactic magnetic field (GMF), including PT11 (Pshirkov et al. [1]), JF12 (Jansson and Farrar [2]), UF23 (Unger and Farrar [3]) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Alexander Korochkin , Dmitri Semikoz , Peter Tinyakov

The study of propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) is a key step in order to unveil the secret of their origin. Up to now it was considered only the influence of the galactic and the extragalactic magnetic fields. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pascal Chardonnet , Alvise Mattei

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

For the understanding of the origin and propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) we developed a new approach to simulating UHECRs from an arbitrary number of sources based on Monte Carlo technique. The method consists of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-15 Klaus Dolag , Martin Erdmann , Gero Müller , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

The Galactic magnetic field, locally observed to be on the order of a few $\mu$G, is sufficiently strong to induce deflections in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We present a method that establishes measures of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael S. Sutherland , Brian M. Baughman , James J. Beatty

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

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
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