Analysis of spin directions of galaxies in the DESI Legacy Survey

L Shamir - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The DESI Legacy Survey is a digital sky survey with a large footprint compared
to other Earth-based surveys, covering both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. This …

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from radio galaxies

B Eichmann, JP Rachen, L Merten… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Radio galaxies are intensively discussed as the sources of cosmic rays observed above
about 3× 10 18 eV, called ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We present a first …

[PDF][PDF] Fornax A, Centaurus A, and other radio galaxies as sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

JH Matthews, AR Bell, KM Blundell… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) is still unknown. It has recently been
proposed that UHECR anisotropies can be attributed to starburst galaxies or active galactic …

Observational Constraints on Cosmic-Ray Escape from Ultrahigh-energy Accelerators

Q Luce, S Marafico, J Biteau, A Condorelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Interactions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) accelerated in specific astrophysical
environments have been shown to shape the energy production rate of nuclei differently …

Impact of Galaxy Clusters on the Propagation of Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Rays

A Condorelli, J Biteau, R Adam - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the Universe kept together by gravity. Most of their
baryonic content is made of a magnetized diffuse plasma. We investigate the impact of such …

[HTML][HTML] Shielding of cosmic radiation by fibrous materials

T Blachowicz, A Ehrmann - Fibers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cosmic radiation belongs to the challenges engineers have to deal with when further
developing space travel. Besides the severe risks for humans due to high-energy particles …

All-sky measurement of the anisotropy of cosmic rays at 10 TeV and mapping of the local interstellar magnetic field

AU Abeysekara, R Alfaro, C Alvarez… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first full-sky analysis of the cosmic ray arrival direction distribution with data
collected by the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov and IceCube observatories in the northern …

[HTML][HTML] Asymmetry in galaxy spin directions—Analysis of data from DES and comparison to four other sky surveys

L Shamir - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
The paper shows an analysis of the large-scale distribution of galaxy spin directions of
739,286 galaxies imaged by DES. The distribution of the spin directions of the galaxies …

[HTML][HTML] Reconstructing Galactic magnetic fields from local measurements for backtracking ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

A Tsouros, G Edenhofer, T Enßlin, M Mastorakis… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Context. Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are highly energetic charged particles
with energies exceeding 10 18 eV. These energies are far greater than those achieved in …

Numerical investigation of radiation shielding properties of polyethylene-based nanocomposite materials in different space environments

S Laurenzi, G de Zanet, MG Santonicola - Acta Astronautica, 2020 - Elsevier
Human space missions beyond near Earth orbit require mitigating risk factors associated
with radiation exposure. Current materials show many limitations in this regard and their …