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Producing ultra high energy cosmic rays from AGN magnetic luminosity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2017

Carlos H. Coimbra-Araújo  and
Rita C. Anjos
Carlos H. Coimbra-Araújo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Engenharias e Exatas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Rua Pioneiro 2153, 85950-000, Palotina, Brazil. email: [email protected]
Rita C. Anjos
Affiliation:
Departamento de Engenharias e Exatas, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Rua Pioneiro 2153, 85950-000, Palotina, Brazil. email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The present work proposes a method to calculate the AGN magnetic luminosity fraction to be converted into ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) luminosities for nine UHECR AGN Seyfert sources based on the respective observation of gamma ray upper limits. The motivation for such calculation comes attached to the fact that a fraction of the magnetic luminosity (LB) produced by Kerr black holes in some AGNs can produce the necessary energy to accelerate UHECRs beyond the GZK limit, observed, e.g., by the Auger experiment. Nevertheless, the direct detection of those UHECRs has a lack of information about the direction of the source from where those cosmic rays are coming, since charged particles are deflected by the intergalactic magnetic field. Such problem arises alternative methods to evaluate the luminosity of UHECRs from the observation of upper limits during the propagation.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 12 , Symposium S324: New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics , September 2016 , pp. 207 - 210
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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