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Extragalactic sources and propagation of UHECRs

Abstract:
With the publicly available astrophysical simulation framework for propagating extraterrestrial UHE particles, CRPropa 3, it is now possible to study realistic UHECR source scenarios including deflections in Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields in an efficient way. Here we discuss three recent studies that have already been done in that direction. The first one investigates what can be expected in the case of maximum allowed intergalactic magnetic fields. Here is shown that, even if voids contain strong magnetic fields, deflections of protons with energies ≳60 EeV from nearby sources might be small enough to allow for UHECR astronomy. The second study looks into several scenarios with a smaller magnetization focusing on large-scale anisotropies. Here is shown that the local source distribution can have a more significant effect on the large-scale anisotropy than the EGMF model. A significant dipole component could, for instance, be explained by a dominant source within 5 Mpc distance. The third study looks into whether UHECRs can come from local radio galaxies. If this is the case it is difficult to reproduce the observed low level of anisotropy. Therefore is concluded that the magnetic field strength in voids in the EGMF model used here is too low and/or there are additional sources of UHECRs that were not taken into account in these simulations.
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Published
Peer review status:
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10.7566/jpscp.19.011022

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Astrophysics
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-2656-064X


Publisher:
Physical Society of Japan
Article number:
011022
Series:
JPS Conference Proceedings
Series number:
19
Publication date:
2018-01-18
Acceptance date:
2016-11-10
Event title:
International Conference on Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR2016)
Event location:
Kyoto, Japan
Event website:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/504078/
Event start date:
2016-10-11
Event end date:
2016-10-14
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English
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Pubs id:
896850
Local pid:
pubs:896850
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2021-08-04
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