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arxiv: astro-ph/9704203 · v1 · pith:HB2EFLTInew · submitted 1997-04-21 · 🌌 astro-ph

Ultra-high energy cosmic ray sources and large scale magnetic fields

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keywords energyfieldsmagneticcosmicscaletimeultra-higharrival
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Protons of energies up to 10**20 eV can be subject to significant deflection and energy dependent time delay in lage scale extragalactic or halo magnetic fields of strengths comparable to current upper limits. By performing 3-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of nucleon propagation, we show how observations of arrival direction and time distributions can be used to measure the structure and strength of large-scale magnetic fields, and constrain the nature of the source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays.

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