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The landscape of high- and ultra-high-energy astrophysics has changed in the last decade, largely due to the inflow of data collected by large-scale cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino observatories. At the dawn of the multimessenger era,…

CRPropa is a Monte Carlo framework for simulating the propagation of (ultra-) high-energy particles in the Universe, including cosmic rays, gamma rays, electrons, and neutrinos. It covers energies from ZeV down to GeV for gamma rays and…

To answer the fundamental questions concerning the origin and nature of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), it is important to confront data with simulated astrophysical scenarios. These scenarios should include detailed information on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-12 R. Alves Batista , M. Erdmann , C. Evoli , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kuempel , G. Müller , G. Sigl , A. van Vliet , D. Walz , T. Winchen

The landscape of high- and ultra-high-energy astrophysics has changed in the last decade, in large part owing to the inflow of high-quality data collected by present cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino observatories. At the dawn of the…

We present CRPropa 3.3, the latest release of the publicly available Monte Carlo framework for simulating the propagation of high-energy particles in astrophysical environments. This version introduces significant extensions that enables…

The interpretation of experimental data of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above 10^17 eV is still under controversial debate. The development and improvement of numerical tools to propagate UHECRs in galactic and extragalactic space…

Version 2.0 of CRPropa is public software to model the extra-galactic propagation of ultra-high energy nuclei of atomic number Z<26 through structured magnetic fields and ambient photon backgrounds taking into account all relevant particle…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Karl-Heinz Kampert , Jörg Kulbartz , Luca Maccione , Nils Nierstenhoefer , Peter Schiffer , Günter Sigl , Arjen René van Vliet

Solving the question of the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) requires the development of detailed simulation tools in order to interpret the experimental data and draw conclusions on the UHECR universe. CRPropa is a public…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-21 Rafael Alves Batista , Martin Erdmann , Carmelo Evoli , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Daniel Kuempel , Gero Mueller , Günter Sigl , Arjen Van Vliet , David Walz , Tobias Winchen

The astrophysical interpretation of recent experimental observations of cosmic rays relies increasingly on Monte Carlo simulations of cosmic ray propagation and acceleration. Depending on the energy range of interest, several different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 R. Alves Batista , J. Becker Tjus , A. Dundovic , M. Erdmann , C. Heiter , K. -H. Kampert , D. Kuempel , L. Merten , G. Müller , G. Sigl , A. v. Vliet , D. Walz , T. Winchen , M. Wirtz

The propagation of charged cosmic rays through the Galactic environment influences all aspects of the observation at Earth. Energy spectrum, composition and arrival directions are changed due to deflections in magnetic fields and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Lukas Merten , Julia Becker Tjus , Horst Fichtner , Björn Eichmann , Günter Sigl

In order to interpret cosmic ray observations, detailed modeling of propagation effects invoking all important messengers is necessary. We introduce a new photon production and propagation code as an inherent part of the CRPropa 3 software…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-06 Christopher Heiter , Daniel Kuempel , David Walz , Martin Erdmann

To understand the origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, defined to be above 10^18 eV), it is required to model in a realistic way their propagation in the Universe. UHECRs can interact with low energy radio, microwave, infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Armengaud , G. Sigl , T. Beau , F. Miniati

Realistic predictions for the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays require extensive simulations of UHECR propagation through 3D space, potentially even including cosmological evolution and timing effects. Such 3D or 4D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 Jens Jasche , Arjen van Vliet , Jörg P. Rachen

We introduce the new version of SimProp, a Monte Carlo code for simulating the propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays in intergalactic space. This version, SimProp v2r3, allows the choice of many more models for the extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 Roberto Aloisio , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Aurelio Grillo , Sergio Petrera , Francesco Salamida

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 results of simulations of the extragalactic propagation of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have intrinsic uncertainties due to poorly known physical quantities and approximations used in the codes. We quantify the uncertainties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 Rafael Alves Batista , Denise Boncioli , Armando di Matteo , Arjen van Vliet , David Walz

The past decade has brought impressive advances in the astrophysics of cosmic rays (CRs) and multiwavelength astronomy, thanks to the new instrumentation launched into space and built on the ground. Modern technologies employed by those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-16 Troy A. Porter , Gudlaugur Johannesson , Igor V. Moskalenko

Experiments for radio detection of UHE particles such as e.g. ARA/ARIANNA or NuMoon require detailed understanding of the propagation of radio waves in the surrounding matter. The index of refraction in e.g. polar ice or lunar rock may have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Tobias Winchen

Research in many areas of modern physics and astrophysics such as, e.g., indirect searches for dark matter (DM), particle acceleration in SNR shocks, and the spectrum and origin of extragalactic gamma-ray background, rely heavily on studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Igor V. Moskalenko

We use the CRPropa code to simulate the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (with energy $\geq 10^{18} \rm eV$ and pure proton composition) through extragalactic magnetic fields that have been simulated with the cosmological ENZO…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-01 Stefan Hackstein , Franco Vazza , Marcus Brueggen , Guenter Sigl , Andrej Dundovic
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