Nearby active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies as sources of the measured UHECRs anisotropy signal
arXiv:2208.05849 · doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2023/07/058
Abstract
The Pierre Auger and the Telescope Array observatories have measured independent and statistical significant anisotropy in the arrival direction of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR). Three hotspot regions with relative excess of events and a dipole signal have been identified in different regions of the sky and energy ranges. In this paper, we investigate the conditions under which these anisotropy signal could be generated by nearby (<23 Mpc) active galactic nuclei (AGN) and/or starburst galaxies (SBG). We studied a wide range of possibilities including injected nuclei (p, He, N, Si, and Fe), three UHECR luminosity proxies and three extragalactic magnetic field models. The results shows that both local AGN and SBG are needed to describe all the anisotropy signal. The contribution of AGN to hotspots and to the generation of the dipole is dominant in most cases. SBG is required only to explain the hotspot measured by the Telescope Array Observatory.
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