Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Source Models: Successes, Challenges and General Predictions

Understanding the acceleration of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays is one of the great challenges of contemporary astrophysics. In this short review, we summarize the general observational constraints on their composition, spectrum and isotropy which indicate that nuclei heavier than single protons dom...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Globus Noémie, Blandford Roger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: EDP Sciences 2023-01-01
Series:EPJ Web of Conferences
Online Access:https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2023/09/epjconf_uhecr2023_04001.pdf