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Possible Spectra of Cosmic Rays Accelerated in Extragalactic Sources A.V. Uryson Lebedev Physics Institute of Russsian Academy of Sciences Moscow 117924 e-mail: Uryson@sci.lebedev.ru Abstract. Spectra at the Earth of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) from Seyfert nuclei with red shifts z≤0.0092 and from Blue Lacertae objects (BL Lac’s) are calculated. The spectra are compared with the experimental data. It is shown that in nearby Seyferts the initial spectrum of the UHECRs is most likely the exponential one. UHECRs from BL Lac’s may have the monoenergetic initial spectrum with the energy of 1021 eV to fit to the data. Spectra at the Earth derived in these two models are very similar if there is no Bl Lac’s with red shifts z0.02. The maximal energy in cosmic rays seemingly does not exceed 1021 eV. In calculations we used red shift distributions of the objects according to the recent (2001) catalogue of active nuclei by Veron-Cetty and Veron (see ref. in the text). 1. Introduction. It is current opinion that cosmic rays with energies E4?1019 eV are of extragalactic origin. However their sources are not found out yet. Astrophysical objects of various kinds, as well as topological defects and unstable supermassive relic particles of cold dark matter along with gamma-bursts are considered as potential UHECR sources (see e.g. [1] and references therein). It is possible to identify UHECR sources in the first case if arrival directions of cosmic particles are known and if particles propagate in straight lines in the extragalactic space. I performed direct identification of UHECR sources in the papers [2, 3] and found that moderate Seyfert nuclei with red shifts z≤0.0092 along with BL Lac’s were possible sources of UHECRs. BL Lac’s were identified as possible sources also in [4]. The mechanism of particle acceleration in BL Lac’s was supposed in [5] and the one in moderate active nuclei was suggested in my paper [6]. According to these