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Uhecr acceleration capabilities of the nearby supermassive black holes

TURSUNOV, Arman, Martin KOLOŠ and Zdeněk STUCHLÍK

Basic information

Original name

Uhecr acceleration capabilities of the nearby supermassive black holes

Authors

TURSUNOV, Arman (860 Uzbekistan, belonging to the institution), Martin KOLOŠ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Zdeněk STUCHLÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Košice, Slovensko, 20th Conference of Czech and Slovak Physicists, Proceedings, p. 181-185, 5 pp. 2020

Publisher

Slovak Physical Society, Czech Physical Society

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

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RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19630/20:A0000098

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

ISBN

978-80-89855-13-1

Keywords in English

supermassive black hoel;ultra-high-energycosmicray
Změněno: 20/4/2021 00:57, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

The origin and acceleration mechanism of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energy exceeding the GZK-cutoff remain unknown. It is often speculated that supermassive black holes (SMBHs) located at the centers of many galaxies can serve as possible sources of UHECRs. This is also supported by recent detections of high-energy neutrinos from blazar, as neutrinos are the tracers of UHECRs. In this contribution we explore the capabilities of some SMBHs to accelerate UHECR protons of certain energies by the induced electric field generated due to frame-dragging effect of twisting of magnetic field lines near horizon of rotating SMBHs. In particular, we study the ionization of freely-falling neutral particles, such as the hydrogen ionization or neutron beta-decay in the vicinity of SMBHs immersed into external magnetic field and calculate the energies of escaping protons after the ionization. We choose 25 nearby SMBH candidates (within 100 Mpc) with measured and estimated masses, spins and magnetic fields, for which we present a table with mean proton energy and explore their acceleration capabilities.