Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-10-27
Astron.Lett. 30 (2004) 816-823
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
14 pages, 5 fig. To be Published in Astronomy Letters, 2004, v.30, #12
Scientific paper
10.1134/1.1833432
We computed the energy spectra of the incident (on an air shower array) ultrahigh-energy (E > 4x10^19 eV) cosmic rays (CRs) that were accelerated in nearby Seyfert nuclei at redshifts z<= 0.0092 and in BL Lac objects. For our calculations, we took the distribution of these sources over the sky from catalogs of active galactic nuclei. In accordance with the possible particle acceleration mechanisms, the initial CR spectrum was assumed to be monoenergetic for BL Lac's and a power law for Seyfert nuclei. The CR energy losses in intergalactic space were computed by the Monte Carlo method. The artificial proton statistic was 10^5 for each case considered. The computed spectra of the particles incident on an air shower array agree with the measurements, which indirectly confirms the adopted acceleration models. At energies E>=10^20 eV, the spectrum of the protons from nearby Seyfert nuclei that reached an air shower array closely matches the spectrum of the particles from BL Lac's. BL Lac's are, on average, several hundred Mpc away. Therefore, it is hard to tell whether a blackbody cutoff exists or not by analyzing the shape of the measured spectrum at E>= 5x10^19 eV.
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