scholarly journals Possible Association of Ultra–High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Events with Strong Gamma-Ray Bursts

1995 ◽  
Vol 449 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordehai Milgrom ◽  
Vladimir Usov
2020 ◽  
Vol 902 (2) ◽  
pp. 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filip Samuelsson ◽  
Damien Bégué ◽  
Felix Ryde ◽  
Asaf Pe’er ◽  
Kohta Murase

2008 ◽  
Vol 677 (1) ◽  
pp. 432-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang‐Yu Wang ◽  
Soebur Razzaque ◽  
Peter Mészáros

2018 ◽  
Vol 611 ◽  
pp. A101 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Biehl ◽  
D. Boncioli ◽  
A. Fedynitch ◽  
W. Winter

Aim. We discuss neutrino and cosmic ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the injection of nuclei, where we take into account that a nuclear cascade from photodisintegration can fully develop in the source. Our main objective is to test whether recent results from the IceCube and the Pierre Auger Observatory can be accommodated within the paradigm that GRBs are the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Methods. We simulate this scenario in a combined source-propagation model. While our key results are obtained using an internal shock model of the source, we discuss how the secondary emission from a GRB shell can be interpreted in terms of other astrophysical models. Results. We demonstrate that the expected neutrino flux from GRBs weakly depends on the injection composition for the same injection spectra and luminosities, which implies that prompt neutrinos from GRBs can efficiently test the GRB-UHECR paradigm even if the UHECRs are nuclei. We show that the UHECR spectrum and composition, as measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory, can be self-consistently reproduced. In an attempt to describe the energy range including the ankle, we find tension with the IceCube bounds from the GRB stacking analyses. In an alternative scenario, where only the UHECRs beyond the ankle originate from GRBs, the requirement for a joint description of cosmic ray and neutrino observations favors lower luminosities, which does not correspond to the typical expectation from γ-ray observations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 497 (2) ◽  
pp. 2455-2468
Author(s):  
Michael W Toomey ◽  
Foteini Oikonomou ◽  
Kohta Murase

ABSTRACT We present a search for high-energy γ-ray emission from 566 Active Galactic Nuclei at redshift z > 0.2, from the 2WHSP catalogue of high-synchrotron peaked BL Lac objects with 8 yr of Fermi-LAT data. We focus on a redshift range where electromagnetic cascade emission induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays can be distinguished from leptonic emission based on the spectral properties of the sources. Our analysis leads to the detection of 160 sources above ≈5σ (TS ≥25) in the 1–300 GeV energy range. By discriminating significant sources based on their γ-ray fluxes, variability properties, and photon index in the Fermi-LAT energy range, and modelling the expected hadronic signal in the TeV regime, we select a list of promising sources as potential candidate ultra-high-energy cosmic ray emitters for follow-up observations by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes.


1986 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Ciampa ◽  
R. W. Clay ◽  
C. L. Corani ◽  
P. G. Edwards ◽  
J. R. Patterson

AbstractThe Buckland Park air shower array is being developed particularly for use as an ultra-high-energy gamma ray astronomy telescope. The properties of this instrument are described with an emphasis on improvements being made to its angular resolution. Some early data are presented to illustrate the way in which the data obtained will be used.


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