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Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been one of the most widely discussed sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The recent results of Pierre Auger observatory (PAO) have indicated a possible composition change of UHECRs above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 Asaf Pe'er , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

We present an investigation of the propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) in extragalactic magnetic field (EGMF). We use the IRAS PSCz catalogue in order to reconstruct EGMF taking into account power-law dependence between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrii Elyiv

The Maximum Likelihood Method is generalized to include effects important for UHECR applications. The new approach can incorporate source distance constraints implied by the observed CR energy and can allow for energy uncertainties,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-02 Glennys R. Farrar

Some studies suggested that a correlation between locations of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and the arrival directions of the ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) exists. Especially by assuming the primary particles charged +1 and using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhen Cao , Ben Zhong Dai , Jian Ping Yang , Li Zhang

The interaction of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) with the atoms of the atmosphere can occur at center-of-mass energies that surpass 100 TeV, while present human-made accelerators go up to 13 TeV. Therefore it provides a unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-26 Ruben Conceição

Several explanations for the existence of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) invoke the idea that they originate from the decay of massive particles created in the reheating following inflation. It has been suggested that the decay…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo Medina Tanco , Alan A. Watson

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

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays, UHECR, maybe protons, as most still believe and claim, or nuclei; in particular lightest nuclei as we advocated recently. The first (Auger Collaboration) nucleon proposal (2007)[2] foresaw to trace clearly the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Daniele Fargion

We discuss the intergalactic propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies E \geq 10^{18.5} eV. We consider the propagation of UHECRs under the influence of the energy-dependent deflection by a weak random magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Abraham Achterberg , Yves A. Gallant , Colin A. Norman , Donald B. Melrose

We investigate the propagation of ultraheavy (UH) nuclei as ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We show that their energy loss lengths at $\lesssim300$ EeV are significantly longer than those of protons and intermediate-mass nuclei, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Nick Ekanger , Mukul Bhattacharya , Shunsaku Horiuchi

We calculate the number density and luminosity of the sources of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), using the information about the small scale anisotropies and the observed spectra. We find that the number of doublets and triplets…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pasquale Blasi , Daniel De Marco

The detection of high-energy astrophysical multimessengers establishes a connection between ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and powerful cosmic accelerators. Interactions of UHECRs with radiation fields and interstellar matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 Rodrigo Sasse , Rubens Costa , Adriel G. B Mocellin , Carlos H. Coimbra Araújo , Rita de Cássia dos Anjos

Recent data from the Pierre Auger Observatory has revealed the presence of a large-scale dipole in the arrival direction distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). In this work, we build up an understanding of the diffusive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-09 Rodrigo Guedes Lang , Andrew M. Taylor , Vitor de Souza

Many attempts have been made to provide catalogs of potential sources of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) particles based on various astronomical tracers, such as observed radio or gamma-ray emission. A closer look reveals, however,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 Jörg P. Rachen , Björn Eichmann

Energetics of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) generated in the universe is crucial for pinning down their candidate sources. Using the recent Auger data on UHECR spectra, we calculate the UHECR energy generation rate density for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Yu Jiang , B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase

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 Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest detector of ultra--high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). It uses an array of fluorescence telescopes and particle detectors at the ground to obtain detailed measurements of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Dariusz Gora

The sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are still unknown, but assuming standard physics, they are expected to lie within a few hundred megaparsecs from us. Indeed, over cosmological distances cosmic rays lose energy to interactions…

The mass composition of ultra high-energy cosmic ray (UHECRs) can be inferred from measurements of $X_{\rm max}$ distributions by fitting them with Monte Carlo (MC) predictions for different primary species of nuclei in each energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-07 Nicusor Arsene

The origin and nature of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are one of the most intriguing mysteries in particle astrophysics and astronomy. The two largest observatories, the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array Experiment,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Toshihiro Fujii