Astrophysical interpretation of Pierre Auger Observatory measurements of the UHECR energy spectrum and mass composition

Pierre Auger Collaboration

doi:10.1051/epjconf/201713602002

Astrophysical interpretation of Pierre Auger Observatory measurements of the UHECR energy spectrum and mass composition

Pierre Auger Collaboration

Physics

INFN
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Universität Siegen
Instituto Superior Tecnico
Sezione di Torino
INAF-IAPS
Fermilab
Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies
University of São Paulo
CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET
Ohio State University
CONICET
Universidad Tecnológica
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Sezione di Napoli
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Lehman College
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
University of Bucharest
Universidad Industrial de Santander
Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica
University Politehnica of Bucharest
'Horia Hulubei' National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Bergische Universität Wuppertal
University of Adelaide
UJF-Grenoble 1/CNRS-INSU
Università di Torino and Sezione INFN
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie
Université Paris 11
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Sezione di Lecce
Universita del Salento
Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN
Colorado State University
RWTH Aachen University

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We present a combined fit of a simple astrophysical model of UHECR sources to both the energy spectrum and mass composition data measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The fit has been performed for energies above 5 EeV, i.e. the region of the all-particle spectrum above the so-called "ankle"' feature. The astrophysical model we adopted consists of identical sources uniformly distributed in a comoving volume, where nuclei are accelerated with a rigidity-dependent mechanism. The fit results suggest sources characterized by relatively low maximum injection energies and hard spectral indices. The impact of various systematic uncertainties on the above result is discussed.

Original language	British English
Article number	02002
Journal	EPJ Web of Conferences
Volume	136
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713602002
State	Published - 23 Mar 2017
Event	6th Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics, RICAP 2016 - Frascati, Roma, Italy Duration: 21 Jun 2016 → 24 Jun 2016

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Astrophysical interpretation of Pierre Auger Observatory measurements of the UHECR energy spectrum and mass composition

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