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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 690, Issue 1, Pages L14-L17Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/690/1/L14
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cosmic rays; galaxies: active; gamma rays: bursts
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- JSPS
- MEXT
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We study ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient UHECR sources and the required isotropic cosmic-ray energy input per burst as 0.1 Gpc(-3) yr(-1) less than or similar to rho(0) less than or similar to 10(3.5) Gpc(-3) yr(-1) and 10(49.5) erg less than or similar to epsilon(iso)(HECR) less than or similar to 10(54) erg by constraining the apparent burst duration, i.e., dispersion in arrival times of UHECRs. Based on these bounds, we discuss implications for proposed candidates such as gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei.
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