Towards a model of population of astrophysical sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
arXiv:1207.2859 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.86.063005
Abstract
We construct and discuss a toy model of the population of numerous non-identical extragalactic sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. In the model, cosmic-ray particles are accelerated in magnetospheres of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei, the key parameter of acceleration being the black-hole mass. We use astrophysical data on the redshift-dependent black-hole mass function to describe the population of these cosmic-ray accelerators, from weak to powerful, and confront the model with cosmic-ray data.
arXiv comment9 pages, 4 figures, Revtex 4.1
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