Cosmic Ray Anisotropy Workshop 2013

Session

Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays - Ke Fang, U of Chicago

26 Sep 2013, 16:05

Union South, UW-Madison

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9. Newborn Pulsars as sources of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays

Ke Fang (University of Chicago)

26/09/2013, 16:05

Ke Fang

The workings of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators in the Universe are encoded in the origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Current observations by the Auger Observatory, the largest UHECR observatory, show a spectrum that agrees with an extragalactic origin, as well as an interesting transition in chemical composition from light element to heavier element as energy...