How many Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays could we expect from Centaurus A?

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2012-04-19

arxiv.org/abs/1204.4500v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Accepted in ApJ

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The Pierre Auger Observatory has associated a few ultra high energy cosmic rays with the direction of Centaurus A. This source has been deeply studied in radio, infrared, X-ray and $\gamma$-rays (MeV-TeV) because it is the nearest radio-loud active galactic nuclei. Its spectral energy distribution or spectrum shows two main peaks, the low energy peak, at an energy of $10^{-2}$ eV, and the high energy peak, at about 150 keV. There is also a faint very high energy (E $\geq$ 100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray emission fully detected by the High Energy Stereoscopic System experiment. In this work we describe the entire spectrum, the two main peaks with a Synchrotron/Self-Synchrotron Compton model and, the Very High Energy emission with a hadronic model. We consider p$\gamma$ and $pp$ interactions. For the p$\gamma$ interaction, we assume that the target photons are those produced at 150 keV in the leptonic processes. On the other hand, for the pp interaction we consider as targets the thermal particle densities in the lobes. Requiring a satisfactory description of the spectra at very high energies with p$\gamma$ interaction we obtain an excessive luminosity in ultra high energy cosmic rays (even exceeding the Eddington luminosity). However, when considering pp interaction to describe the $\gamma$-spectrum, the obtained number of ultra high energy cosmic rays are in agreement with Pierre Auger observations. Moreover, we calculate the possible neutrino signal from pp interactions on a Km$^3 $ neutrino telescope using Monte Carlo simulations.

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