Ultrahigh energy cosmic ray acceleration in newly born magnetars and their associated gravitational wave signatures

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2011-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/1106.3060v1

Phys.Rev.D84:023002,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

16 pages, 7 figures, version to appear in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.84.023002

Newly born magnetars are good candidate sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. These objects can in principle easily accelerate particles to the highest energies required to satisfy the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray scenario (E~10^{20-21} eV), thanks to their important rotational and magnetic energy reservoirs. Their acceleration mechanism, based on unipolar induction, predicts however a hard particle injection that does not fit the observed ultrahigh energy cosmic ray spectrum. Here we show that an adequate distribution of initial voltages among magnetar winds can be found to soften the spectrum. We discuss the effect of these distributions for the stochastic gravitational wave background signature produced by magnetars. The magnetar population characteristics needed to fit the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray spectrum could lead in most optimistic cases to gravitational wave background signals enhanced of up to four orders of magnitudes in the range of frequency 1-100 Hz, compared to the standard predictions. These signals could reach the sensitivities of future detectors such as DECIGO or BBO.

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