The hot spots of very powerful radio galaxies (Fanaroff Riley class II) are argued to be the sources of the ultrahigh energy component in Cosmic Rays. We present calculations of Cosmic Ray transport in an evolving universe, taking the losses against the microwave background properly into account. As input we use the models for the cosmological radio source evolution derived by radioastronomers (mainly Peacock 1985). The model we adopt for the acceleration in the radio hot spots has been introduced by Biermann and Strittmatter (1987), and Meisenheimer et al. (1989) and is based on first order Fermi theory of particle acceleration at shocks (see, e.g., Drury 1983). As an unknown the actual proportion of energy density in protons enters, which together with structural uncertainties in the hot spots should introduce no more than one order of magnitude in uncertainty: We easily reproduce the observed spectra of high energy cosmic rays. It follows that scattering of charged energetic particles in intergalactic space must be sufficiently small in order to obtain contributions from sources as far away as even the nearest Fanaroff Riely class II radio galaxies. This implies a strong constraint on the turbulent magnetic field in intergalactic space.
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5 August 1992
Particle acceleration in cosmic plasmas
4−6 Dec 1991
Newark, Delaware (USA)
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August 05 1992
Ultrahigh‐energy cosmic rays from Fanaroff Riley class II radio galaxies
Jörg Rachen;
Jörg Rachen
Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
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Peter L. Biermann
Peter L. Biermann
Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
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Jörg Rachen
Peter L. Biermann
Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany
AIP Conf. Proc. 264, 393–399 (1992)
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Jörg Rachen, Peter L. Biermann; Ultrahigh‐energy cosmic rays from Fanaroff Riley class II radio galaxies. AIP Conf. Proc. 5 August 1992; 264 (1): 393–399. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.42713
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