Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from supermassive black holes: particle flux on the Earth and extragalactic diffuse emission

Abstract

Cosmic rays accelerated to ultra-high energies (E>4x10^19 eV) in electric fields in accretion discs around supermassive black holes are discussed. Particle injection spectra are assumed to be harder than those formed in acceleration on shock fronts. It turned out that cosmic rays with injection spectra supposed contribute a little in the particle flux detected with ground-based arrays. But in the extragalactic space particle generate a noticeable flux of the diffuse gamma-ray emission compared with the data obtained with the Fermi LAT instrument (onboard the Fermi space observatory). The intensity of neutrinos generated by cosmic rays propagating in the extragalactic space is also derived. The model intensity of cascade neutrinos is much lower than that of astrophysics ones. It is concluded that possibly supermassive black holes are cosmic ray sources which contribute slightly to the particle flux detected on the Earth, but these sources should be taken into account when analyzing components of extragalactic diffuse gamma-ray emission.

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