Physical conditions in potential sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. I. Updated Hillas plot and radiation-loss constraints - INSPIRE

DataBETA

Physical conditions in potential sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. I. Updated Hillas plot and radiation-loss constraints

Aug, 2008

24 pages

Published in:

Phys.Usp. 53 (2010) 691-701

e-Print:

0808.0367 [astro-ph]

DOI:

10.3367/UFNe.0180.201007c.0723

View in:

ADS Abstract Service

reference search116 citations

Citations per year

Abstract: (arXiv)

We review basic constraints on the acceleration of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs) in astrophysical sources, namely the geometrical (Hillas) criterion and restrictions from radiation losses in different acceleration regimes. Using the latest available astrophysical data, we redraw the Hillas plot and figure out potential UHECR accelerators. For the acceleration in central engines of active galactic nuclei, we constrain the maximal UHECR energy for a given black-hole mass. Among active galaxies, only the most powerful ones, radio galaxies and blazars, are able to accelerate protons to UHE, though acceleration of heavier nuclei is possible in much more abundant lower-power Seyfert galaxies.

Note:

27 pages, 12 figures. V.2: numerous minor changes, results untouched. Accepted in Physics Uspekhi (UFN).

98.70.Sa
cosmic radiation: UHE
cosmic radiation: particle source
cosmic radiation: acceleration
radiation: energy loss
astrophysics: magnetic field
black hole: massive
gamma ray: burst
galaxy: cluster

References(91)

Figures(12)

- Rev.Mod.Phys. 72 689C

Lecture notes on high energy cosmic rays

M. Kachelriess
(
- Norwegian U. Sci. Tech.
)

e-Print:
- 0801.4376

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 16 748C

- JETP Lett. 4 78C

First observation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin suppression

HiRes

Collaboration

•

R.U. Abbasi
(
- Utah U.
)

et al.

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 100 (2008) 101101
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0703099
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.101101

Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above $4\times 10^{19}$ eV

Pierre Auger

Collaboration

•

J. Abraham
(
- Natl. Tech. U., San Rafael
)

et al.

- Phys.Rev.Lett. 101 (2008) 061101
•
e-Print:
- 0806.4302
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.061101

- Z.Naturforsch.A 5 237

The Origin of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays

A.M. Hillas
(
- Leeds U.
)

- Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys. 22 (1984) 425-444,
- In *Burbidge, G. ( Ed.) Et Al.: Annual Review Of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol. 22*, 425-444,
- In *Lamb, F.k. ( Ed.): High Energy Astrophysics*, 277-296
•
DOI:
- 10.1146/annurev.aa.22.090184.002233

Effect of energy losses and interactions during diffusive shock acceleration: Applications to SNR, AGN and UHE cosmic rays

Ray J. Protheroe
(
- Adelaide U.
)

- Astropart.Phys. 21 (2004) 415-431
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0401523
•
DOI:
- 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2004.02.004

Constraints on the extremely high-energy cosmic ray accelerators from classical electrodynamics

F.A. Aharonian
(
- Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst.
)
,
A.A. Belyanin
(
- Texas A-M and
- Nizhnii Novgorod, IAP
)
,
E.V. Derishev
(
- Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst. and
- Nizhnii Novgorod, IAP
)
,
V.V. Kocharovsky
(
- Texas A-M and
- Nizhnii Novgorod, IAP
)
,
V.V. Kocharovsky
(
- Nizhnii Novgorod, IAP
)

- Phys.Rev.D 66 (2002) 023005
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0202229
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.023005

A Constraint on electromagnetic acceleration of highest energy cosmic rays

Mikhail V. Medvedev
(
- Kansas U.
)

- Phys.Rev.E 67 (2003) 045401
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0303271
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.67.045401

Physical conditions in nearby active galaxies correlated with ultra-high-energy cosmic rays detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Sergey. Gureev
(
- Moscow State U.
)
,
Sergey. Troitsky
(
- Moscow, INR
)

- Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 25 (2010) 2917-2932
•
e-Print:
- 0808.0481
•
DOI:
- 10.1142/S0217751X10048512

Reconciling the ultra-high energy cosmic ray spectrum with Fermi shock acceleration

M. Kachelriess
(
- Norwegian U. Sci. Tech. and
- Munich, Max Planck Inst.
)
,
Dmitry V. Semikoz
(
- APC, Paris and
- Moscow, INR
)

- Phys.Lett.B 634 (2006) 143-147
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0510188
•
DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2006.01.009

- Phys.Rev. 75 1169C

- Phys.Rept. 154 1C

Shear acceleration in relativistic astrophysical jets

- Astrophys.J. 617 (2004) 155-161
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0410269
•
DOI:
- 10.1086/425167

Particle acceleration through multiple conversions from charged into neutral state and back

Evgeny V. Derishev
(
- Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst. and
- Nizhnii Novgorod, IAP
)
,
F.A. Aharonian
(
- Heidelberg, Max Planck Inst.
)
,
V.V. Kocharovsky
(
- Nizhnii Novgorod, IAP and
- Texas A-M
)
,
Vl.V. Kocharovsky
(
- Nizhnii Novgorod, IAP
)

- Phys.Rev.D 68 (2003) 043003
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0301263
•
DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.043003

Cosmic ray acceleration at relativistic shocks, shear layers, ..

M. Ostrowski

e-Print:
- 0801.1339

High-energy hadronic acceleration in extragalactic radio jets

Rudiger Schopper
(
- Munich U. and
- Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE
)
,
Guido Thorsten Birk
(
- Munich U. and
- Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE
)
,
Harald Lesch
(
- Munich U. and
- Garching, Max Planck Inst., MPE
)

- Astropart.Phys. 17 (2002) 347-354
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0106530
•
DOI:
- 10.1016/S0927-6505(01)00156-6

Constraints on the production of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays by isolated neutron stars

- Astrophys.J. 484 (1997) 323-328
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/9612210
•
DOI:
- 10.1086/304304

- New Astron.Rev. 47 693

TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators

Andrii Neronov
(
- LPHE, Lausanne
)
,
P. Tinyakov
(
- Brussels U. and
- Moscow, INR
)
,
I. Tkachev
(
- CERN and
- Moscow, INR
)

- J.Exp.Theor.Phys. 100 (2005) 4, 656-662,
- Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz. 127 (2005) 4, 744-751
•
e-Print:
- astro-ph/0402132
•
DOI:
- 10.1134/1.1926427

1-25 of 91
1
2
3
4
25 / page