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TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators
We study numerically particle acceleration by the electric field induced near the horizon of a rotating supermassive black hole embedded in a uniform magnetic field. We find that acceleration of protons to energy 10^{20} eV is possible only at extreme values of parameters. We also find that the acce...
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Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1134/1.1926427 http://cds.cern.ch/record/711010 |
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author | Neronov, Andrii Tinyakov, P. Tkachev, I. |
author_facet | Neronov, Andrii Tinyakov, P. Tkachev, I. |
author_sort | Neronov, Andrii |
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description | We study numerically particle acceleration by the electric field induced near the horizon of a rotating supermassive black hole embedded in a uniform magnetic field. We find that acceleration of protons to energy 10^{20} eV is possible only at extreme values of parameters. We also find that the acceleration is very inefficient and is accompanied by 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 the observed UHECR with energy >10^{20} eV were produced by O(10) sources situated within 50 Mpc, each of them would overshine Crab nebula by more than two orders of magnitude. 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 (4-5)x10^{19} eV. |
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publishDate | 2004 |
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spelling | cern-7110102019-09-30T06:29:59Zdoi:10.1134/1.1926427http://cds.cern.ch/record/711010engNeronov, AndriiTinyakov, P.Tkachev, I.TeV signatures of compact UHECR acceleratorsAstrophysics and AstronomyWe study numerically particle acceleration by the electric field induced near the horizon of a rotating supermassive black hole embedded in a uniform magnetic field. We find that acceleration of protons to energy 10^{20} eV is possible only at extreme values of parameters. We also find that the acceleration is very inefficient and is accompanied by 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 the observed UHECR with energy >10^{20} eV were produced by O(10) sources situated within 50 Mpc, each of them would overshine Crab nebula by more than two orders of magnitude. 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 (4-5)x10^{19} eV.astro-ph/0402132oai:cds.cern.ch:7110102004-02-05 |
spellingShingle | Astrophysics and Astronomy Neronov, Andrii Tinyakov, P. Tkachev, I. TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators |
title | TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators |
title_full | TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators |
title_fullStr | TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators |
title_full_unstemmed | TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators |
title_short | TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators |
title_sort | tev signatures of compact uhecr accelerators |
topic | Astrophysics and Astronomy |
url | https://dx.doi.org/10.1134/1.1926427 http://cds.cern.ch/record/711010 |
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