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In this paper, we suggest a new way to identify single bright sources of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) on the sky, on top of background. We look for doublets of events at the highest energies, E > 6 x 10^19 eV, and identify low…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 G. Giacinti , X. Derkx , D. V. Semikoz

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 investigate the deflections of UHE protons by Galactic magnetic field(GMF) using four conventional GMF models in order to discuss the positional correlation between the arrival distribution of UHECRs and their sources. UHE protons coming…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-10 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

We predict the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays including their deflection in the Galactic magnetic field, for several combinations of source and composition hypotheses: the sources are hard X-ray AGNs or uniformly sample the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-20 J. Roberts , G. Farrar

Auger data show evidence for a correlation between ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and nearby starburst galaxies. This intriguing correlation is consistent with data collected by the Telescope Array, which have revealed a much more…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-16 Jorge F. Soriano , Luis A. Anchordoqui , Diego F. Torres

(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

The standard assumption about the influence of the turbulent intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) on the images of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) sources is that the latter are formed in a random walk mode in the deflection angle. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-25 K. Dolgikh , A. Korochkin , G. Rubtsov , D. Semikoz , I. Tkachev

Our understanding of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) has increased considerably in recent years, while at the same time remaining far from adequate. By way of illustration, the Jansson and Farrar (2012) (JF12) GMF model is described,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-08 Glennys R. Farrar

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are believed to originate from astrophysical sources, which should trace the large scale structure (LSS) of the universe. On the other hand, the magnetic field in the intergalactic space (IGMF), which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-29 Dongsu Ryu , Hyesung Kang , Santabrata Das

The detection of the Amaterasu event of energy 244 EeV by the Telescope Array, one of the most energetic ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs; $E\gtrsim0.1$ EeV) observed to date, invites scrutiny of its potential source. We investigate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-17 Saikat Das , Srijita Hazra , Nayantara Gupta

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

Planned and ongoing campaigns for the acquisition of high-quality local measurements of the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) at interstellar cloud locations have generated intense interest in the use of such measurements to accurately…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-30 S. Romanopoulos , M. Mastorakis , V. Pavlidou

The propagation trajectories of the highest energy cosmic rays (HECRs) are deflected by not only intergalactic magnetic field but also Galactic magnetic field (GMF). These magnetic fields can weaken the positive correlation between the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-03 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

We consider the synchrotron emission from electrons out in the Galactic halo bubble region where the Fermi bubble structures reside. Utilising a simple analytical expression for the non-thermal electron distribution and a toy magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-04 Vasundhara Shaw , Arjen van Vliet , Andrew M. Taylor

We present the results of a study that simulates trajectories of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from Centaurus A to Earth, for particle rigidities from $E/Z = 2$ EV to 100 EV, i.e., covering the possibility of primary particles as heavy as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-21 Azadeh Keivani , Glennys R. Farrar , Michael Sutherland

A consequence of Liouville's theorem indicates that the recently observed large scale anisotropy in the arrival direction of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) cannot be produced by the Galactic magnetic field, thus this anisotropy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-06 Björn Eichmann , Tobias Winchen

The cluster of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays observed by the AGASA, HiRes and Yakutsk experiments is studied with respect to possible deflections of particles in regular magnetic fields. Best-fit positions of a potential source of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. V. Troitsky

We studied how the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) affects the propagation of super-GZK protons that originate from extragalactic sources within the local GZK sphere. Toward this end, we set up hypothetical sources of ultra-high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Dongsu Ryu , Santabrata Das , Hyesung Kang

Combined recent data from cosmic-ray detectors and gamma-ray detectors have produced some surprising insights regarding the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), magnetic fields inside and outside the Milky Way, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Alexander Kusenko

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