Astrophysical interpretations of the data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory

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Result on the web
<a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/3053/1/012007/pdf" target="_blank" >https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/3053/1/012007/pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/3053/1/012007" target="_blank" >10.1088/1742-6596/3053/1/012007</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Astrophysical interpretations of the data measured at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Original language description
The Pierre Auger Observatory measures several characteristics of ultra-highenergy cosmic rays (UHECRs), in particular the energies, the depths of shower maximum of the air-shower profiles, and the arrival directions. Using the energy spectrum and the distributions of depths of shower maximum in a combined fit, the parameters of homogeneously distributed UHECR sources can be constrained. We find that the data are well reproduced if two extragalactic populations of sources are considered, one emitting a soft spectrum dominating below the ankle, and one with a very hard spectrum and mixed composition dominating at the highest energies. In the case of very strong extragalactic magnetic fields between the closest sources and Earth, the spectral index of the high-energy population can be much softer and even in agreement with the expectations from shock acceleration. When taking into account also the arrival directions, it is revealed that adding a population of nearby starburst galaxies to the homogeneous background leads to an improvement of the model likelihood to the 4.5a significance level. The energy-dependent arrival directions at the highest energies are well described by flux contributions from the starburst galaxy catalog or the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004632" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004632: Fundamental constituents of matter through frontier technologies</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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