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Ultra high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are believed to be protons accelerated in magnetized plasma outflows of extra-Galactic sources. The acceleration of protons to ~10^{20} eV requires a source power L>10^{47} erg/s. The absence of steady…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

We show that if the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies E>10^{19}eV are associated with galaxies, then the production of UHECRs must occur in transient events. Our galaxy is currently at a dim state in between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abraham Loeb , Eli Waxman

We study about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on the recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-05 Kohta Murase , Hajime Takami

The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remains an open questions in astrophysics. We explore two primary scenarios for the distribution of UHECR sources, assuming that their production rate follows either the cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-29 Antonio Condorelli , Jonathan Biteau , Olivier Deligny , Remi Adam

We explore two generic hypotheses for tracing the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) in the Universe: star formation rate density or stellar mass density. For each scenario, we infer a set of constraints for the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Sullivan Marafico , Jonathan Biteau , Antonio Condorelli , Olivier Deligny , Quentin Luce

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), particles characterized by energies exceeding $10^{18}$ eV, are generally believed to be accelerated electromagnetically in high-energy astrophysical sources. One promising mechanism of UHECR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Luca Comisso , Glennys R. Farrar , Marco S. Muzio

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

Detecting neutrinos and photons is crucial to identifying the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), especially for transient sources. We focus on ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emission from transient sources such as gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-01-18 Kohta Murase

The clustering of ultra high energy (above 10^20 eV) cosmic rays (UHECR) suggests that they might be emitted by compact sources. Statistical analysis of Dubovsky et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 (2000) 1154) estimated the source density. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-31 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz

Recently the Telescope Array collaboration reported an observation of cosmic ray event with very high energy 244 EeV ($2.44 \times 10^{20}$ eV). Importantly, the event is hard to correlate with the matter distribution in the local Universe,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 Mikhail Yu. Kuznetsov

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays, UHECR, are charged particles with energies between $\sim10^{18}\,{\rm eV}$ and $\sim3\times10^{20}\,{\rm eV}\sim50\,{\rm J}$. They exhibit fundamental physics at energies inaccessible to terrestrial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Noémie Globus , Roger Blandford

The clustering of ultrahigh energy (>10^{20} eV) cosmic rays (UHECR) suggests that they might be emitted by compact sources. Statistical analysis (Dubovsky et al., 2000) estimated the source density. We extend their analysis to give also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Fodor , S. D. Katz

We investigate the possibility that near future observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) can unveil their local source distribution, which reflects the observed local structures if their origins are astrophysical objects. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

Ultra-high cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies >10^19 eV emitted at cosmological distances will be attenuated by cosmic microwave and infrared background radiation through photohadronic processes. Lower energy extra-galactic cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-07-25 Xiang-Yu Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Felix Aharonian

The energy density of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) in the Universe is a very important parameter for the solution of the puzzle of their origin. It defines the luminosity of the UHECR sources and thus the type of objects they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Todor Stanev

Understanding the origins of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) - which reach energies in excess of $10^{20}~{\rm eV}$ - stretches particle acceleration physics to its very limits. In this review, we discuss how such energies can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-10 James H. Matthews , Andrew M. Taylor

The interpretation of the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray spectrum (UHECRs) and composition suggests a suppression of the flux below $\sim$1 EeV, as observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array. A natural explanation for this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Alessandro Cermenati , Roberto Aloisio , Pasquale Blasi , Carmelo Evoli

We study how the properties of transient sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) can be accessed by exploiting UHECR experiments, taking into account the propagation of UHECRs in magnetic structures which the sources are embedded…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-06 Hajime Takami , Kohta Murase

The clustering of ultra high energy (above 5\cdot 10^{19} eV) cosmic rays (UHECR) suggests that they might be emitted by compact sources. We present a statistical analysis on the source density based on the multiplicities. The propagation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Z. Fodor

Anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) produced by powerful sources is numerically evaluated. We show that, taking account of the Galactic magnetic field, nondetection of significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-22 Hajime Takami , Kohta Murase , Charles D. Dermer
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