TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators

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2004-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402132v2

J.Exp.Theor.Phys. 100 (2005) 656-662; Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz. 100 (2005) 744-751

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Scientific paper

10.1134/1.1926427

We study numerically particle acceleration by the electric field induced near the horizon of a rotating supermassive (M \sim 10^9-10^{10} M_{\odot}) black hole embedded in the magnetic field B. We find that acceleration of protons to energy E > 10^{20} eV is possible only at extreme values of M and B. We also find that the acceleration is very inefficient and is accompanied by a broad band MeV-TeV radiation whose total power exceeds at least by a factor of 1000 the total power emitted in ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR). This implies that if O(10) nearby quasar remnants were sources of proton events with energy E > 10^{20} eV, then each quasar remnant would overshine e.g. the Crab nebula by more than two orders of magnitude in the TeV energy band. Recent TeV observations exclude this possibility. A model in which O(100) sources are situated at 100-1000 Mpc is not ruled out and can be experimentally tested by present TeV gamma-ray telescopes. Such a model can explain the observed UHECR flux at moderate energies E \sim (4-5) 10^{19} eV.

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