https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135306003
Constraints on direct acceleration of UHECRs in astrophysical sources
1 Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 60th October Anniversary Prospect 7a, Moscow 117312, Russia
2 Physics Department, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119899, Russia
a e-mail: st@ms2.inr.ac.ru
A toy model of the population of numerous non-identical extragalactic sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is presented. In the model, the acceleration of cosmic-ray particles is direct (not diffusive) and takes place in magnetospheres of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, the key parameter of acceleration being the black-hole mass. We use astrophysical data to describe the population of these cosmic-ray accelerators and confront the model with cosmic-ray and gamma-ray data.
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