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Constrained Simulations of the Magnetic Field in the Local Supercluster and the Propagation of UHECR
Magnetic fields (MF) in the Local Supercluster (LSC) of galaxies may have
profound consequences for the propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
(UHECR). Faraday rotations measurements provide some informations about MF in
compact clusters. However, very few is known about less dense regions and about
the global structure of MF in the LSC. In order to get a better knowledge of
these fields we are performing constrained magnetohydrodynamical simulations of
the LSC magnetic field. We will present the results of our simulation and
discuss their implications for the angular distribution of expected UHECR
deflections.Comment: 4 pages + 1 figure. Published on the Proceedings of the 28th
International Cosmic Ray Conference, Tsukuba, Japan (2003
No evidence for gamma-ray halos around active galactic nuclei resulting from intergalactic magnetic fields
We analyze the gamma-ray halo around stacked AGNs reported in Ap.J.Lett.,
2010, 722, L39. First, we show that the angular distribution of gamma-rays
around the stacked AGNs is consistent with the angular distribution of the
gamma-rays around the Crab pulsar, which is a point source for Fermi/LAT. This
makes it unlikely that the halo is caused by an electromagnetic cascade of TeV
photons in the intergalactic space. We then compare the angular distribution of
gamma-rays around the stacked AGNs with the point-spread function (PSF) of
Fermi/LAT and confirm the existence of an excess above the PSF. However, we
demonstrate that the magnitude and the angular size of this effect is different
for photons converted in the front and back parts of the Fermi/LAT instrument,
and thus is an instrumental effect.Comment: accepted to A&
Estimate of the correlation signal between cosmic rays and BL Lacs in future data
The existing correlation between BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and cosmic-ray
events observed by HiRes experiment provide sufficient information to formulate
quantitatively the hypothesis about the flux of neutral cosmic-ray particles
originated from BL Lacs. We determine the potential of future cosmic ray
experiments to test this hypothesis by predicting the number of coincidences
between arrival directions of cosmic rays and positions of BL Lacs on the
celestial sphere, which should be observed in the future datasets. We find that
the early Pierre Auger data will not have enough events to address this
question. On the contrary, the final Pierre Auger data and the early Telescope
Array data will be sufficient to fully test this hypothesis. If confirmed, it
would imply the existence of highest-energy neutral particles coming from
cosmological distances.Comment: 5 page
Photons as Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays ?
We study spectra of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays assuming primaries are
protons and photons, and that their sources are extragalactic. We assume power
low for the injection spectra and take into account the influence of cosmic
microwave, infrared, optical and radio backgrounds as well as extragalactic
magnetic fields on propagation of primaries. Our additional free parameters are
the maximum energy of injected particles and the distance to the nearest
source. We find a parameter range where the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin cut-off is
avoided.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Phytochemical, microbiological, and technological studies in the field of obtaining a hydroalcoholic extract with antimicrobial activity from the liquorice root
Phytochemical composition and antimicrobial activity of hydroalcoholic extracts from the liquorice root with the use of different concentrations of ethanol have been studied. The optimal range of ethanol concentration of 65±15% v/v has been found. The dependency between the integral index of antimicrobial activity of the extract and concentration of glycyram and licuroside has been foun
Evidence for a connection between the gamma-ray and the highest energy cosmic-ray emissions by BL Lacertae objects
A set of potentially gamma-ray--loud BL Lac objects is selected by
intersecting the EGRET and BL Lac catalogs. Of the resulting 14 objects, eight
are found to correlate with arrival directions of ultra--high-energy cosmic
rays (UHECRs), with significance of the order of 5 sigma. This suggests that
gamma-ray emission can be used as a distinctive feature of those BL Lac objects
that are capable of producing UHECR.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figure, version published in APJ Letter
Reheating and thermalization in a simple scalar model
We consider a simple model for the Universe reheating, which consists of a
single self--interacting scalar field in Minkowskian space--time. Making use of
the existence of an additional small parameter proportional to the amplitude of
the initial spatially homogeneous field oscillations, we show that the behavior
of the field can be found reliably. We describe the evolution of the system
from the homogeneous oscillations to the moment when thermalization is
completed. We compare our results with the Hartree--Fock approximation and
argue that some properties found for this model may be the common features of
realistic theories.Comment: Some changes in Introduction and Discussion, comparison with the
Hartree--Fock results added. 37 pages, 2 postscript figures attache
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