Limits on source distances for the most energetic cosmic rays

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Nov 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997pasa...14..258l&link_type=abstract

Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 258-264

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Cosmic Rays

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The propagation of the highest energy cosmic rays through the 2.7 K microwave background is considered. Photo-pion production interactions cause energy losses for primary cosmic ray protons which result in significant energy degradation over intergalactic distances. The process of energy loss is discussed and an estimate is made of the average distances travelled for observed cosmic rays with a range of energies, assuming a power law source spectrum. At energies over 10^20^ eV, the average distances travelled are a few tens of megaparsecs, limiting possible sources to the volume dominated by the supergalactic plane.

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