The need for a local source of UHE CR nuclei

Details The need for a local source of UHE CR nuclei The need for a local source of UHE CR nuclei

2011-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2055v2

Phys.Rev.D84:105007,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

10 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

Recent results of the Pierre Auger (Auger) fluorescence detectors indicate an increasingly heavy composition of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays (CRs). Assuming that this trend continues up to the highest energies observed by the Auger surface detectors we derive the constraints this places on the local source distribution of UHE CR nuclei. Utilizing an analytic description of UHE CR propagation we derive the expected spectra and composition for a wide range of source emission spectra. We find that sources of intermediate-to-heavy nuclei are consistent with the observed spectra and composition data above the ankle. This consistency requires the presence of nearby sources within 60 Mpc and 80 Mpc for silicon and iron only sources, respectively. The necessity of these local sources becomes even more compelling in the presence nano-Gauss local extragalactic magnetic fields.

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