Acceleration and Propagation of Cosmic Rays in High-Metallicity Astrophysical Environments by Ana Laura Müller
English | PDF,EPUB | 2022 | 141 Pages | ISBN : 303110305X | 27.7 MB
This thesis addresses the feasibility of the production of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in starburst galaxies and active galactic nuclei. These astrophysical objects were theoretically proposed as candidate sources a long time ago. Nevertheless, the interest in them has been recently renewed due to the observational data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array. In this work, a comprehensive review of the current status of the research on cosmic rays accelerators is provided, along with a summary of the principal concepts needed to connect these relativistic particles with electromagnetic and neutrino observations in the multi-messenger era.