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Constraints on the Local Sources of Ultra High-Energy Cosmic Rays
Eli Waxman, Abraham Loeb
Ultra high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are believed to be protons accelerated in magnetized plasma outflows of extra-Galactic sources. The acceleration of protons to ~10^{20} eV re…
Non-thermal emission from supernova shock breakout and the origin of the X-ray transient associated with SN2008D
Xiang-Yu Wang, Zhuo Li, Eli Waxman +1
We suggest that non-thermal emission can be produced by multiple scatterings of the photons between the supernova ejecta and pre-shock material in supernova shock breakout. Such bu…
Magnetic field evolution in relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks
Uri Keshet, Boaz Katz, Anatoly Spitkovsky +1
We study relativistic unmagnetized collisionless shocks using unprecedentedly large particle-in-cell simulations of two-dimensional pair plasma. High energy particles accelerated b…
X-ray Hotspot Flares and Implications for Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Magnetic Field amplification in Supernova Remnants
Yousaf Butt, Troy Porter, Boaz Katz +1
For more than fifty years, it has been believed that cosmic ray (CR) nuclei are accelerated to high energies in the rapidly expanding shockwaves created by powerful supernova explo…
Searching for a Correlation Between Cosmic-Ray Sources Above 10^{19} eV and Large-Scale Structure
Tamar Kashti, Eli Waxman
We study the anisotropy signature which is expected if the sources of ultra high energy, >10^{19} eV, cosmic-rays (UHECRs) are extragalactic and trace the large scale distribution…