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We investigate non-thermal electron and nuclei energy losses within the binary neutron star merger remnant produced by the event GW170817. The lack of a cooling feature within the detected synchrotron emission from the source is used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-06 Xavier Rodrigues , Daniel Biehl , Denise Boncioli , Andrew M. Taylor

Binary neutron star mergers are strong gravitational wave (GW) sources and the leading candidates to interpret short duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). Under the assumptions that SGRBs are produced by double neutron star mergers and that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-06 He Gao , Bing Zhang , Hou-Jun Lü

The possible connection between high energy neutrinos in the energy region above 100 TeV and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies above $10^{19}$ eV motivates multi-messenger observation approaches involving neutrinos and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Shigeru Yoshida

The merger of two neutron stars or of a neutron star and a black hole often result in the ejection of a few percents of a solar mass of matter expanding at high speed in space. Being matter coming from the violent disruption of a neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-21 Albino Perego , Friedrich-Karl Thielemann , Gabriele Cescutti

We explain the observed multiwavelength photon spectrum of a number of BL Lac objects detected at very high energy (VHE, $E \gtrsim 30$ GeV), using a lepto-hadronic emission model. The one-zone leptonic emission is employed to fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Saikat Das , Nayantara Gupta , Soebur Razzaque

The gamma-ray burst (GRB) model for production of ultra-high-energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) is based on the hypothesis that GRBs arise from the dissipation of the kinetic energy of relativistic fireballs at cosmological distances. Recent GRB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Waxman

I give a brief critical review of the predicted intensity of diffuse high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin over the energy range from 10^12 eV to 10^24 eV. Neutrinos from interactions of galactic cosmic rays with interstellar matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Protheroe

At highest energy edges Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray, (UHECR) and PeVs neutrino (UHE neutrino), should soon offer new exciting astronomy. The fast and somehow contradictory growth of hundred of antagonist models shows the explosive vitality…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-14 Daniele Fargion

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) can be accelerated by tidal disruption events of stars by black holes. We suggest a novel mechanism for UHECR acceleration wherein white dwarfs (WDs) are tidally compressed by intermediate-mass black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Rafael Alves Batista , Joseph Silk

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

The conjecture that ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are actually strangelets is discussed. Besides the reason that strangelets can do as cosmic rays beyond the GZK-cutoff, another argument to support the conjecture is addressed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. X. Xu , F. Wu

As recently suggested, nearby quasar remnants are plausible sites of black-hole based compact dynamos that could be capable of accelerating ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). In such a model, UHECRs would originate at the nuclei of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego F. Torres , Elihu Boldt , Timothy Hamilton , Michael Loewenstein

Cosmic rays with energies beyond the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin `cutoff' at $\sim 4 \times 10^{10}$ GeV pose a conundrum, the solution of which requires either drastic revision of our astrophysical understanding, or new physics beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sarkar

We present a calculation of nuclei propagation with energies above 1 EeV in the intergalactic photon field. The calculation is based on a Monte Carlo approach for the nucleus-photon interaction as well as the intergalactic magnetic field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Tokonatsu Yamamoto , Keiichi Mase , Masahiro Takeda , Naoto Sakaki , Masahiro Teshima

Significant progress has been made over the past decades towards unveiling the sources of the most energetic particles in nature, the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Despite these advancements, the exact astrophysical sites capable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-03 Rafael Alves Batista

High energy Astroparticles include Cosmic Ray, gamma ray and neutrinos, all of them coming from the universe. The origin and production, acceleration and propagation mechanisms of ultrahigh-energy CR (up to $10^{20}$ eV) are still unknown.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-02-14 Karen Salomé Caballero Mora

We perform a numerical-relativity simulation for the merger of binary neutron stars with 6 nuclear-theory-based equations of state (EOSs) described by piecewise polytropes. Our purpose is to explore the dependence of the dynamical behavior…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-13 Kenta Hotokezaka , Koutarou Kyutoku , Hirotada Okawa , Masaru Shibata , Kenta Kiuchi

Observation of clustering of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) suggests that they are emitted by compact sources. Assuming small deflection of UHECR during the propagation, the statistical analysis of clustering allows to estimate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 S. L. Dubovsky , P. G. Tinyakov , I. I. Tkachev

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been held as one of the most promising sources of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos. The internal shock model of GRB emission posits the joint production of UHE cosmic ray (UHECRs, above 10^8 GeV), photons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-10 Mauricio Bustamante , Philipp Baerwald , Walter Winter

Neutron-rich material ejected from neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) and neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) binary mergers is heated by nuclear processes to temperatures of a few hundred keV, resulting in a population of electron-positron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-03 George M. Fuller , Alexander Kusenko , David Radice , Volodymyr Takhistov