Production of UHECRs (astrophysical mechanisms)
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2005
- Daniel De Marco. On the shape of the UHE cosmic ray spectrum. (astro-ph/0506318.)
- David Eichler. Ultrahigh Energy Activity in Giant Magnetar Outbursts . (astro-ph/0504452.)
- Pankaj Jain,
Sukanta Panda. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Early Decaying Primordial Black Holes. (astro-ph/0509324.)
- Maxim Lyutikov, Rachid Ouyed. Inductive acceleration of UHECRs in sheared relativistic jets. (astro-ph/0507620, submitted to Astropart. Phys.)
- A.Mattei. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from charged black holes. A new
theoretical possibility?. (astro-ph/0505616, XXXX Rencontres de Moriond, Italie (2005).)
- Guenter Sigl. Magnetized Sources of Ultra-high Energy Nuclei and Extragalactic
Origin of the Ankle. (astro-ph/0507656.)
- Todor Stanev. High energy astrophysical processes . (astro-ph/0504401.)
- Diego F. Torres, Luis A. Anchordoqui. On the Observational Status of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays and
their Possible Origin in Starburst-Like Galaxies. (astro-ph/0505283.)
2004
- Matthew G. Baring. Diffusive Shock Acceleration of High Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/0409303, Nuclear Physics B,
Proceedings Supplements, CRIS 2004, Cosmic Ray
International Seminar: "GZK and Surroundings.".)
- Arnon Dar. The Origin of Cosmic Rays - A 96-Year-Old Puzzle Solved?. (astro-ph/0408310, proceedings of the 2004 La
Thuile Workshop on Perspectives In High energy Physics, La Thuile, Aosta
Valley, Italy, February 29-March 6, 2004 and of the 2004 Vulcano Workshop on
Frontier Objects in Particle Physics and Astro Physics, Vulcano, Italy, May
24-29, 2004.)
- A. De Rujula. A Cannonball Model of Cosmic Rays. (hep-ph/0412094, XIII
International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions, Pylos,
Greece, 2004.)
- M.Kachelriess, D.Semikoz. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from a finite number of point sources. (astro-ph/0405258.)
- A.Neronov, P.Tinyakov, I.Tkachev. TeV signatures of compact UHECR accelerators. (astro-ph/0402132).
- Jacek Niemiec. Relativistic Shocks and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin. (astro-ph/0407531, Proceedings of the Vulcano Workshop 2004 "Frontier Objects in
Astrophysics and Particle Physics", F. Giovannelli & G. Mannocchi (eds.),
Italian Physical Society, Editrice Compositori, Bologna, Italy.)
- R.J. Protheroe. Effect of energy losses and interactions during diffusive shock
acceleration: applications to SNR, AGN and UHE Cosmic Ray. (astro-ph/0401523, submitted to Astroparticle Physics).
- R.J. Protheroe. Effect of energy losses and interactions during diffusive shock acceleration: applications to SNR, AGN and UHE cosmic rays. (Astropart. Phys. 21 (2004) 415).
- A.V. Uryson. The Maximum Energy and Spectra of Cosmic Rays Accelerated in Active Galactic
Nuclei. (astro-ph/0410662).
- Tadeusz Wibig, Arnold W. Wolfendale. No 'cut off' in the High Energy Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum. (astro-ph/0406511.)
2003
- Gian Luigi Alberghi, Kevin Goldstein, David A. Lowe. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and de Sitter Vacua. (A HREF="http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307413">astro-ph/0307413.)
- Peter L. Biermann, Gustavo Medina-Tanco. Ultra high energy cosmic ray sources & experimental results. (astro-ph/0301299, Invited Talk at the XII ISVHECRI (CERN,
Switzerland, 2002), to be published in Nuclear Phys. B (Proc. Suppl..)
- Pasquale Blasi. Theoretical Aspects of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/0304206, Invited Review Talk at the XXI Texas Symposium, December 2002,
Florence, Italy.)
- Zhe Chang, Shao-Xia Chen. Effects of the Cosmological Constant as the Origin of the Cosmic-Ray Paradox. (astro-ph/0307439.)
- Giller Maria, Michalak Wojciech, Smialkowski Andrzej. UHECR Anisotropy from Luminous Infrared Galaxies - Predictions for the
Pierre Auger Observatory. (astro-ph/0308532).
- Je-An Gu. Kaluza-Klein Burst: a New Mechanism for Generating Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic
Rays. (astro-ph/0305523.)
- C. Isola, G. Sigl, G. Bertone. Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Quasar Remnants. (astro-ph/0312374, submitted to JCAP).
- M. Kachelriess, D.V. Semikoz. Superheavy dark matter as UHECR source versus the SUGAR data. (astro-ph/0306282.)
- Hang Bae Kim, Peter Tinyakov. Constraining superheavy dark matter model of UHECR with SUGAR data. (astro-ph/0306413.)
- T. Kobayashi et al. The Most Likely Sources of High Energy Cosmic-Ray Electrons in Supernova
Remnants. (astro-ph/0308470, submitted to ApJ).
- Mikhail V. Medvedev. A Constraint on Electromagnetic Acceleration of Highest Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/0303271.)
- R. Ouyed, P. Keränen, J. Maalampi. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays from Quark Novae. (astro-ph/0301575.)
- E. Parizot. Multiple UHECR events from galactic hadron jets. (Astropart. Phys. 19 (2003) 605).
- Shwetabh Singh, Chung-Pei Ma, Jonathan Arons. amma-Ray Bursts and Magnetars as Possible Sources of Ultra High Energy
Cosmic Rays: Correlation of Cosmic Ray Event Positions with IRAS Galaxies. (astro-ph/0308257.)
- B.T. Stokes, C.C.H. Jui, J.N. Matthews. Using Fractal Dimensionality in the Search for Source Models of Ultra-High
Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/0307491.)
- George Svetlichny. Non-linear quantum mechanics and high energy cosmic rays. (hep-th/0305100.)
- P. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev. Cuts and penalties: comment on ``The clustering of ultra-high energy cosmic
rays and their sources''. (astro-ph/0301336.)
- A.V.Uryson. Possible Spectra of Cosmic Rays Accelerated in Extragalactic Sources. (astro-ph/0312618.)
- A.V. Uryson. dentification of Nearby Active Galaxies as Sources of Cosmic Rays Above
4x10^19 ev. (astro-ph/0310520, To be published in Astronomical and
Astrophysical Transactions, 2003, v, 22, # 6).
- A.V. Uryson. Nearby Seyfert galaxies are possible sources of cosmic rays above 4*10^19 eV: Updated Results. (astro-ph/0303347.)
2002
- F.A. Aharonian et al. Constraints on the Extremely High-Energy Cosmic Ray Accelerators from Classical Electrodynamics. (astro-ph/0202229.)
- Jonathan Arons. Magnetars in the Metagalaxy: An Origin for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays in
the Nearby Universe. (astro-ph/0208444).
- V.Berezinsky, A.Z.Gazizov, S.I.Grigorieva. On astrophysical solution to ultra high energy cosmic rays. (hep-ph/0204357.)
- Pisin Chen, Toshiki Tajima, Yoshiyuki Takahashi. Plasma Wakefield Acceleration for Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/0205287.)
- D.S.Gorbunov et al. Evidence for a connection between gamma-ray and highest-energy cosmic ray emissions by BL Lacs. (astro-ph/0204360.)
- C.Isola, G.Sigl. Large scale magnetic fields and the number of cosmic ray sources above the GZK cutoff. Phys. Rev. D66 (2002) 083002.
- Amir Levinson and Elihu Boldt. UHECR production by a compact black hole dynamo: application to Sgr A*. (Astropart. Phys. 16 (2002) 265.)
- A. Meli, J.J. Quenby. Particle acceleration in ultra-relativistic oblique shock waves. (astro-ph/0212329.)
- R. Schopper, G. Thorsten Birk, H. Lesch. High-energy hadronic acceleration in extragalactic radio jets. Astropart. Phys. 17 (2002) 347.
- A. Smialkowski, M. Giller, W. Michalak. Luminous infrared galaxies as possible sources of the UHE cosmic rays. (astro-ph/0203337, Journal of Physics G.)
- Diego F. Torres et al. Nearby quasar remnants and ultra-high energy cosmic rays. (astro-ph/0204419.)
2001
- Luis A. Anchordoqui, Haim Goldberg, and Thomas J. Weiler. An Auger test of the Cen A model of highest energy cosmic rays. (astro-ph/0103043.)
- Luis A. Anchordoqui et al. The Mysterious Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Clustering. (astro-ph/0106501.)
- Luis Anchordoqui et al. Extragalactic Sources for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei. (hep-ph/0107287.)
- Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Alex Lazarian. Constraints on the Acceleration of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays in Accretion-Induced Collapse Pulsars. (astro-ph/0106452, ApJ in press.)
- C.Isola, M.Lemoine, G.Sigl. Centaurus A as the source of UHECR. Phys. Rev. D65 (2001) 033004.
- Oleg E. Kalashev et al. Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Neutrino Emitting Acceleration Sources?. (hep-ph/0112351.)
- J.G. Kirk, R.O. Dendy. Shock Acceleration of Cosmic Rays - a critical review. (astro-ph/0101175, invited review presented at the 17th ECRS, Lodz, July 2000; to appear in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics.)
- C. Litwin, R. Rosner. Plasmoid impacts on neutron stars and highest energy cosmic rays. (astro-ph/0104090, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett.)
- C. Litwin, R. Rosner. On a mechanism of highest-energy cosmic ray acceleration. (astro-ph/0104093, Proc. of 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics.)
- A. Meli, J.J. Quenby. Particle Energy And Acceleration Efficiencies In Highly Relativistic Shocks. (astro-ph/0101245.)
- A. Meli, J.J. Quenby. Numerical Simulations Of Particle Acceleration In Relativistic Shocks With Application To AGN Central Engines. (astro-ph/0101247.)
- M. Ostrowski, J. Bednarz. Comment on the first-order Fermi acceleration at ultra-relativistic shocks. (astro-ph/0101069.)
- M. Ostrowski. Mechanisms and sites of ultra high energy cosmic ray origin. (astro-ph/0101053, Proceedings of the European Cosmic Ray Symposium, Lodz, 2000.)
- Andreas Reisenegger. Magnetic Fields of Neutron Stars: an Overview. (astro-ph/0103010, "Magnetic Fields across the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram", ASP Conference Series Vol. ???; G. Mathys, S. Solanki, & D. Wickramasinghe, editors.)
- B. Rudak. Neutron Stars as Sources of High Energy Particles - the case of RPP. (astro-ph/0101138, International School ``Physics and Astrophysics of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays", June 2000, Paris-Meudon (France), proceedings to appear in Lecture Notes in Physics (Springer).)
- Rüdiger Schopper, Guido Thorsten Birk, Harald Lesch. High Energy Hadronic Acceleration in Extragalactic Radio Jets. (astro-ph/0106530.)
- P.G. Tinyakov, I. I. Tkachev. BL Lacertae are sources of the observed ultra-high energy cosmic rays. (astro-ph/0102476.)
2000
- Felix Aharonian. TeV Gamma Rays from BL Lac Objects due to Synchrotron Radiation of Extremely High Energy Protons. (astro-ph/0003159, New Astronomy, 5 (2000) 377.)
- L. A. Anchordoqui et al. A pot of gold at the end of the cosmic "raynbow"?. (astro-ph/0006071.)
- Janusz Bednarz. Cosmic ray acceleration at relativistic and ultrarelativistic shock waves. (astro-ph/0005075, PhD thesis.)
- Michael Blanton, Pasquale Blasi, Angela V. Olinto. The GZK Feature in our Neighborhood of the Universe. (astro-ph/0009466.)
- Elihu Boldt, Michael Loewenstein. Cosmic Ray Generation by Quasar Remnants: Constraints and Implications. (astro-ph/0006221, accepted for publication in MNRAS.)
- Arnon Dar. Comment on ``Violation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff: A Tempest in a (Magnetic) Teapot? Why Cosmic Ray Energies above $10^{20}$ eV May Not Require New Physics''. (astro-ph/0006013.)
- G.R.Farrar, T.Piran. Violation of the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin Cutoff: A Tempest in a (Magnetic) Teapot? Why Cosmic Ray Energies above 1020 eV May Not Require New Physics. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 (2000) 3527. [See astro-ph/0006013 (Arnon Dar) for critical comments.]
- G.R.Farrar, T.Piran. Deducing the Source of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/0010370.) [The powerful radio galaxy Cen A, at 3.4 Mpc, the probable source of most UHECRs observed at Earth today.]
- Z. Fodor, S. D. Katz. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Compact Sources. (hep-ph/0007158.)
- Graciela B. Gelmini. Super-Kamiokande 0.07 eV Neutrinos in Cosmology: Hot Dark Matter and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays. (hep-ph/0005263.)
- U. D. J. Gieseler, T. W. Jones. First order Fermi acceleration at multiple oblique shocks. (astro-ph/0003082.)
- E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, A. Lazarian. Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Magnetic Reconnection in Newborn Accretion Induced Collapse Pulsars.
(astro-ph/0002155, submitted to ApJ letters.)
- E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, A. Lazarian. Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Magnetic Reconnection in Newborn Pulsars. (astro-ph/0002158, Proc. "Astrophysical Plasmas: Codes, Models & Observations".)
- R. V. Konoplich, S. G. Rubin. Possible Signature of Low Scale Gravity in Ultra High Enegry Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/0005225.)
- Amir Levinson. TeV Emission by Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays in Nearby, Dormant AGNs. (hep-ph/0002020.)
- Amir Levinson, Elihu Boldt. UHECR Production by a Compact Black-Hole Dynamo: Application to Sgr A*. (astro-ph/0012314, submitted to Astroparticle Physics.)
- Amir Levinson. UHECR Production and Curvature TeV Emission in Nearby, Dormant AGNs. (astro-ph/0009383.)
- Esteban Roulet, Diego Harari, Silvia Mollerach. The most energetic particles in the universe. (hep-ph/0001328, submitted to World Scientific.)
- G. Siemieniec, M. Ostrowski. On energy spectra of UHE cosmic rays accelerated in supergalactic accretion flows. (astro-ph/0002075.)
- Guenter Sigl, Diego Torres, Luis Anchordoqui, Gustavo Romero. Testing the Correlation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with High Redshift Sources. (astro-ph/0008363).
- R. Ugoccioni, L. Teodoro, U. Wichoski. Large Scale Structure and Cosmic Rays revisited. (astro-ph/0011171, proceedings of "Third International Workshop on New Worlds in Astro-Particle Physics", 1-3 Sep. 2000, Faro, Portugal and X ENAA, 27-28 Jul. 2000, Lisbon, Portugal.) [Possibility that ultra high energy cosmic rays (E > 10^19 eV) are related to the distribution of matter on large scales.]
- Mario Vietri. On the universality of the spectrum of cosmic rays accelerated at highly relativistic shocks. (astro-ph/0002269, Submitted to ApJ Letters.)
- Amitabh Virmani et al. Correlation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with Compact Radio Loud Quasars. (astro-ph/0010235.)
1999
- Eun-Joo Ahn, Gustavo Medina-Tanco, Peter L. Biermann, Todor Stanev. The origin of the highest energy cosmic rays Do all roads lead back to Virgo?. (astro-ph/9911123 Physical Review Letters, submitted.)
- Luis A. Anchordoqui, Gustavo E. Romero, and Jorge A. Combi. Heavy nuclei at the end of the cosmic ray spectrum?. (astro-ph/9903145.)
- L. A. Anchordoqui et al. Unmasking the tail of the cosmic ray spectrum. (astro-ph/9912081.)
- John N. Bahcall, Eli Waxman. Ultra-high energy cosmic rays may come from clustered sources. (hep-ph/9912326.)
- Matthew G. Baring. Cosmic Ray Origin, Acceleration and Propagation. (astro-ph/9912058, Summary-Rapporteur Volume of the 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Salt Lake City.)
- Aurelien Barrau. Primordial black holes as a source of extremely high energy cosmic rays. (astro-ph/9907347, Astroparticle Physics 12 (2000) 269.)
- J.Bednarz, M.Ostrowski. Efficiency of cosmic ray reflections from an ultrarelativistic shock wave.
(astro-ph/9909430, accepted for publication in MNRAS (Letters).)
- R.D.Blanford. Acceleration of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/9906026, Particle Physics and the Universe, Proceedings of the Nobel Symposium (Enkoping, Sweden, 20-25 August 1998), published in the Topical issue #T85 (2000), Physica Scripta. Editors L.Bergstrom, P.Carlson. & C.Fransson.)
- P. Blasi, R. I. Epstein, A. V. Olinto. Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Young Neutron Star Winds. (astro-ph/9912240.)
- Elihu Boldt and Pranab Ghosh. Cosmic rays from remnants of quasars? (astro-ph/9902342. To be published in Mon. Not. Roy. Astr. Soc.)
- Arnon Dar, A. De Rújula, Nikos Antoniou. A common origin of all the species of high energy cosmic rays?. (astro-ph/9901004.)
- Glennys R. Farrar, Tsvi Piran. GZK Violation - a Tempest in a (Magnetic) Teapot?. (astro-ph/9906431.)
- G. Henri, G. Pelletier , P. O. Petrucci , N. Renaud. Active Galactic Nuclei as High Energy Engines. (astro-ph/9901051.)
- M. A. Malkov et al. Critical self-organization of astrophysical shocks. (astro-ph/9910326, Submitted to ApJL.)
- Gustavo Medina Tanco, Alan A. Watson. Dark matter halos and the anisotropy of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. (astro-ph/9903182, Astropart. Phys. 12 (1999) 25.)
- Gustavo A. Medina Tanco, Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, Jorge E. Horvatth. Origin and Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/9901053.) [Proc. of the 1998 International Congress on Plasma Physics, Ed. P. Pavlo, Europhysics Conf. Abs. (EPS Publ.), vol. 22C, pp.1091-1094.]
- A. A. Mikhailov. Search for Sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/9906302, to appear in Proceedings of 26th ICRC - Salt Lake City.) [Correlations between UHECR directions and pulsars.]
- A. Muecke et al. Photomeson production in astrophysical sources. (astro-ph/9905153, Proc. 19th Texas Symposium on on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Paris, France, Dec. 1998.)
- A. V. Olinto, R. I. Epstein, P. Blasi. Galactic Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/9906338, to appear in the Proceedings of the 26th ICRC.)
- Angela V. Olinto. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Accelerators. (astro-ph/9911154, presented at "Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms for Emissions from Astrophysical Plasmas", IAU Colloquium 195, P.C.H. Martens and S. Tsuruta eds.)
- M. Ostrowski. Energetic particle acceleration in shear layers. (astro-ph/9911091.
- F. W. Stecker. Gamma-Ray Bursts Cannot Produce the Observed Cosmic Rays Above $10^{19}$ eV. (astro-ph/9911269.)
- Anatoli Vankov. On the Cosmological Aspects of Observed High Energy Cosmic Phenomena. (astro-ph/9904045, submitted to the ANS Centennial Meeting, March 20 - 26, 1999, Atlanta, Georgia.)
1998
- L. A. Anchordoqui et al. High energy protons from PKS 1333-33. (astro-ph/9811378.) [Possible acceleration of protons in the outer radio lobes of the active galaxy PKS 1333-33 that may reach energies above GZK.]
- Luis A. Anchordoqui. From 3K to $10^{20}$eV. (astro-ph/9812445.) [PhD Thesis (summary).]
- V. Berezinsky. Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays. (hep-ph/9802351,
Invited talk at TAUP-97). [A review of all the current theories and models
attempting to explain the origin of the highest energy cosmic rays.]
- V. Berezinsky, A. A. Mikhailov. Anisotropy of ultra high energy cosmic rays in the halo models. (astro-ph/9810277.)
- Pijushpani Bhattacharjee, Guenter Sigl. Origin and Propagation of Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/9811011.) [Physics Reports, 327 (2000) 109-247.]
- Pasquale Blasi, Angela V. Olinto. A Magnetized Local Supercluster and the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays (astro-ph/9806264.)
- Glennys R. Farrar, Peter L. Biermann. Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (astro-ph/9806242.) [Correlations found between the five highest energy cosmic rays and radio-loud quasars, with a very good statistical significance.]
- Yves A. Gallant, Abraham Achterberg. Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray acceleration by relativistic blast waves. (astro-ph/9812316. Accepted for MNRAS (Letters).)
- Kouveliotou et al. Discovery of a magnetar associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900+14. (astro-ph/9809140.). Nature 393 (1998) 235. [Observation of a "magnetar", a pulsar with very high magnetic field, one of the most efficient accelerators with one-shot mechanism.]
- Gustavo A. Medina Tanco. The photodisintegration of cosmic ray nuclei by solar photons: the Gerasimova-Zatsepin effect revisted. (astro-ph/9808033.)
- D. V. Nanopoulos. Cryptons: a stringy form of decaying superheavy dark matter, as a source of the ultra high energy cosmic rays. (hep-ph/9809546.) [Talk given at the R. Arnowitt Fest: A Symposium on Supersymmetry and Gravitation, College Station, TX 5-7 April 1998.]
- M.Ostrowski. Acceleration of UHE Cosmic Ray Particles at Relativistic Jets in Extragalactic Radio Sources. (astro-ph/9803299).
- Ray Protheroe. Acceleration and Interaction of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/9812055.) [Chapter in "Topics in cosmic-ray astrophysics" ed. M. A. DuVernois, Nova Science Publishing: New York, 1999.]
1997
- L.Anchordoqui et al. Opacity of the microwave background radiation to ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Nucl. Phys. 52B (Proc. Supp.) (1997) 249.
- John D. Barrow, Pedro G. Ferreira, Joseph Silk. Constraints on a
Primordial Magnetic Field. astro-ph/9701063 (astro-ph/9701063). Submitted to PRL.
- P.Biermann. J. Phys. G. 23 (1997) 1. [Radio Galaxy Lobes as a possible site of acceleration fur the UHECR.]
- G. Burdman, F. Halzen, R. Gandhi.The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and Particle Physics.
(hep-ph/9709399).
[Is there any new particle physics outcome expected from the EHECRs? The answer
is, here: probably not.]
- A.P.Fairall, P.A.Woudt, R.C.Kraan-Korteweg. Extragalactic Large Scale Structures behind the southern Milky-Way.
(astro-ph/9705152). [New observations confirming massive structures of galaxies in the direction of galactic center (Great Attractor).]
- G.A.Medina Tanco, E.M.de Gouveia Dal Pino. Galactic Diffuse gamma-ray
Emission at TeV Energies and the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays. (astro-ph/9707023, to appear in
Proceedings of Fourth Compton Symposium - AIP. July 1997.)
- F. W. Stecker. On the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
(astro-ph/9710353). Phys.
Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 1816.
[This article argues that the EHECR can be heavy nuclei coming from as far as
100 Mpc distances.]
- Jacek Szabelski.Cosmic Rays: Studying the Origin. (astro-ph/971019).
[A very detailed (60 pages) investigation of the origin of cosmic rays from the
lowest energy gamma-ray astronomy to the EHECR observations.]
1996
- G.Cocconi. About the most energetic cosmic rays. Astropart.
Phys. 4 (1996) 281. [Some AGNs observed with gamma-ray detectors as
possible candidates for EHECR sources.]
- F.Halzen. The Search for the Source of the Highest Energy Cosmic
Rays. Talk presented at the International Workshop "New Worlds in
Astroparticle Physics", Faro, Portugal, Sept. 8-10, 1996
(astro-ph/9704020).
- F.Halzen. Active Galaxies as particle accelerators.
Proc. of the 8th Blois Conference. (August 1996.)
- H.Kang, D.Ryu, T.W.Jones. Ap. J. 456 (1996) 422. [Accretion shocks as the acceleration mechanism; not enough for the highest energies.]
- R.J.Protheroe. Origin and propagation of the highest energy cosmic
rays. 21 Dec 1996. (astro-ph/9612212. Proceedings of
"Towards the Millennium in Astrophysics: Problems and Prospects", Erice 1996,
eds. M.M. Shapiro and J.P.Wefel, World Scientific, Singapore.) [A detailed
overview of shock acceleration, interactions of high energy cosmic rays with,
and propagation through, the background radiation, and the resulting
electron-photon cascade. It seems likely that shock acceleration at
Fanaroff-Riley Class II radio galaxies can account for the existing data.]
- R.J.Protheroe. Astrophysical sources of high energy neutrinos. 21
Dec 1996. (astro-ph/9612213. To be published in Towards the Millennium in Astrophysics: Problems and Prospects, Erice 1996, eds. M.M.Shapiro and J.P.Wefel, World Scientific, Singapore.) [A critical review of the
predicted intensity of diffuse high energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin
over the energy range from 10**12 eV to 10**24 eV.]
- G.E.Romero et al. Centaurus A as a source of extragalactic cosmic rays
with arrival energies well beyond the GZK cutoff. Astropart. Phys.
5 (1996) 279. [Centaurus A, the nearest and a very powerful active
galaxy could, following the model here, accelerate particles up to energies
>10**21 eV.]
- T.Stanev, H.P.Vankov. The nature of the highest energy cosmic rays.
(astro-ph/9607011.) [Identification of gamma initiated cosmic rays from hadrons using interaction properties with earth's
geomagnetic field.]
- A.Venkatesan, M.C.Miller & A.V.Olinto. Constraints on the Production
of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays by Isolated Neutron Stars. 21 December
1996. Submitted to Astroph. J. (astro-ph/9612210). [Strong constraints are put on any model of UHECRS involving isolated neutron stars. It is shown that the only viable power source associated with isolated neutron
stars is rotation.]
1995
- C.A.Norman et al. The origin of cosmic rays above 1018.5
eV. Astrophys. J. 454 (1995) 60. [A comprehensive review of all the
conventional astrophysical accelerating mechanisms in the highest energy
range.]
- C.M.Urry, P.Padovani. Unified Schemes for Radio-Loud Active Galactic
Nuclei. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 107
(1995) 803. [A 40-page Review paper on a unified description of AGNs, quasars,
BL Lac radio-galaxies, blazars and the related zoology.]