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Recently studies of the dipole anisotropy in the arrival directions of Galactic cosmic rays indicate that the TeV-PeV dipole anisotropy amplitude is not described by a simple power law, moreover a rapid phase change exists at an energy of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-03 Xiaobo Qu

We argue that the diffusion of cosmic rays in the Galactic magnetic field has to be strongly anisotropic. As a result, the number of CR sources contributing to the local CR flux is reduced by a factor $\sim 200$. The CR density is therefore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 M. Kachelriess

The direction and magnitude of the dipole anisotropy of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with energies above 8 EeV observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory indicate their extragalactic origin. The observed dipole on Earth does not necessarily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-13 Alena Bakalová , Jakub Vícha , Petr Trávníček

Deviations from isotropy have been a key tool to identify the sources and the primary type of cosmic rays (CRs) at low energies. We argue that anisotropies due to blind regions induced by the Galactic magnetic field, the cosmological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kachelriess

We simulate the propagation of cosmic rays at ultra-high energies, $\gtrsim 10^{18}$ eV, in models of extragalactic magnetic fields in constrained simulations of the local Universe. We investigate the impact of different magneto-genesis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brüggen , Jenny G. Sorce , Stefan Gottlöber

We present the extent to which anisotropies in the ultrahigh energy neutrino sky can probe the distribution of extreme astrophysical accelerators in the universe. In this talk, we discuss the origin of an anisotropic neutrino sky and show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Marco Stein Muzio , Noémie Globus

Understanding the acceleration of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays is one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. In this short review, we summarize the general observational constraints on their composition, spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 Noemie Globus , Roger Blandford

Important observational results have been recently reported on the angular distributions of cosmic rays at all energies, calling into question the perception of cosmic rays a decade ago. These results together with their in-progress…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-07 Olivier Deligny

We explore the possibility that the recently detected dipole anisotropy in the arrival directions of~$>8$~EeV ultra-high energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) arises due to the large-scale structure (LSS). We assume that the cosmic ray sources follow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Noemie Globus , Tsvi Piran

Anisotropy is very important to understand cosmic ray (CR) source and interstellar environment. The theoretical explanation of cosmic rays anisotropy from experiments remains challenging and even puzzling for a long time. In this paper, by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Haoran Meng , Gang Qin

Recent analyses of the anisotropy of cosmic rays at $10^{18}$ eV (the AGASA and SUGAR data) show significant excesses from regions close to the Galactic Centre and Cygnus. Our aim is to check whether such anisotropies can be caused by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Bednarek , M. Giller , M. Zielinska

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

Galactic transport models for cosmic rays involve the diffusive motion of these particles in the interstellar medium. Due to the large-scale structured galactic magnetic field this diffusion is anisotropic with respect to the local field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-07 Frederic Effenberger , Horst Fichtner , Klaus Scherer , Ingo Büsching

Analyses of TeV-PeV cosmic ray (CR) diffusion around their sources usually assume either isotropic diffusion or anisotropic diffusion due to the regular Galactic magnetic field. We show that none of them are adequate on distances smaller…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-29 G. Giacinti , M. Kachelriess , D. V. Semikoz

Radio galaxies are promising candidates as the sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). In this work, we examine if the stringent constraints imposed by the dipole and quadropole anisotropies as well as the UHECR spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Björn Eichmann , Michael Kachelrieß , Foteini Oikonomou

The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays is still unknown. The discovery of their sources will reveal the workings of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators in the universe. Current observations show a spectrum consistent with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Kumiko Kotera , Angela V. Olinto

The arrival directions of multi-TeV cosmic rays show significant anisotropies at small angular scales. It has been argued that this small-scale structure can naturally arise from cosmic ray scattering in local turbulent magnetic fields that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 Markus Ahlers , Philipp Mertsch

The arrival directions of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) are highly isotropic. This is expected from the presence of turbulent magnetic fields in our Galactic environment that repeatedly scatter charged CRs during propagation. However, various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-05 Markus Ahlers , Philipp Mertsch

We discuss the possibility that a dominant fraction of the cosmic rays above the ankle is due to a single nearby source, considering in particular the radio galaxy Centaurus A. We focus on the properties of the source spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet

Our latest paper investigates the effects of UHECR propagation in a turbulent intergalactic magnetic field in the small-angle scattering regime, specifically focusing on the non-trivial caustic-like pattern that arises with strong deviation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-03 K. Dolgikh , A. Korochkin , G. Rubtsov , D. Semikoz , I. Tkachev