Ultra-high energy cosmic ray production in the polar cap regions of black hole magnetospheres

被引：46

作者：

Neronov, A. Yu ^{[1
,2
]}

Semikoz, D. V. ^{[3
,4
]}

Tkachev, I. I. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] ISDC, CH-1290 Verosoix, Switzerland

[2] Observ Geneva, CH-1290 Verosoix, Switzerland

[3] APC, F-75205 Paris, France

[4] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, Moscow 117312, Russia

来源：

NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS | 2009年 / 11卷

关键词：

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; NEARBY EXTRAGALACTIC OBJECTS; PARTICLE-ACCELERATION; ACCRETION DISKS; RADIO JETS; GAMMA-RAYS; EMISSION; SPECTRUM; FIELDS; PHOTODISINTEGRATION;

D O I：

10.1088/1367-2630/11/6/065015

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

We develop a model of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) production via acceleration in a rotation-induced electric field in vacuum gaps in the magnetospheres of supermassive black holes (BHs). We show that if the poloidal magnetic field near the BH horizon is misaligned with the BH rotation axis, charged particles, which initially spiral into the BH along the equatorial plane, penetrate into the regions above the BH 'polar caps' and are ejected with high energies to infinity. We show that in such a model acceleration of protons near a BH of typical mass 3 x 108 solar masses is possible only if the magnetic field is almost aligned with the BH rotation axis. We find that the power of anisotropic electromagnetic emission from an UHECR source near a supermassive BH should be at least 10-100 times larger than the UHECR power of the source. This implies that if the number of UHECR sources within the 100 Mpc sphere is similar to 100, the power of electromagnetic emission that accompanies proton acceleration in each source, 10(42-43) erg s(-1), is comparable to the typical luminosities of active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the local Universe. We also explore the acceleration of heavy nuclei, for which the constraints on the electromagnetic luminosity and on the alignment of the magnetic field in the gap are relaxed.

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