Constraints on Cosmic Ray Acceleration Capabilities of Black Holes in X-ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F47813059%3A19630%2F22%3AA0000217" target="_blank" >RIV/47813059:19630/22:A0000217 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/482" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/14/3/482</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym14030482" target="_blank" >10.3390/sym14030482</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Constraints on Cosmic Ray Acceleration Capabilities of Black Holes in X-ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei

Original language description

Rotating black holes (BHs) are likely the largest energy reservoirs in the Universe as predicted by BH thermodynamics, while cosmic rays (CRs) are the most energetic among particles detected on Earth. Magnetic fields surrounding BHs combined with strong gravity effects, thanks to the spacetime symmetries, turn the BHs into powerful accelerators of charged particles. At the same time, in the age of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astronomy, BHs and their environments have not yet been probed with CR messengers, despite being observed across most of the electromagnetic spectrum, and neutrino and gravitational waves. In this paper, we probe the acceleration capabilities of BHs in 8 galactic X-ray binaries and 25 local active galactic nuclei (AGNs) within 100 Mpc, based on the ultra-efficient regime of the magnetic Penrose process of a BH energy extraction combined with observational data. We find that the maximum energy of the galactic BHs can reach only up to the knee of the CR spectrum, including supermassive BH Sgr A* at the Galactic Center. On the other hand, for supermassive BHs in AGNs, we find that the mean energy of primary CRs is of the order of 10(19) eV. It is therefore likely that local supermassive BHs give sufficient contribution to the ankle-a sharp change in the slope of the cosmic ray spectrum around 10(18)(.6) eV energy. We also discuss the energy losses of primary CRs close to the acceleration zones. In the galactic BH cases, it is likely dominated by synchrotron radiation losses.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10308 - Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SYMMETRY-BASEL

ISSN

2073-8994

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

„482-1“-„482-12“

UT code for WoS article

000776416800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85125622608