UHECRs deflections in the IRAS PSCz catalogue based models of extragalactic magnetic field.pdf

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 6 1 1 6 9 6 v 1 2 2 N o v 2 0 0 6 UHECRs deflections in the IRAS PSCz catalogue based models of extragalactic magnetic field A. Elyiv Astronomical Observatory, Kyiv National University, Observatorna str., 3, Kyiv 304053, Ukraine elyjiw@ukr.net Abstract We present an investigation of the propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHE- CRs) in extragalactic magnetic field (EGMF). We use the IRAS PSCz catalogue in order to reconstruct EGMF taking into account power-law dependence between the magnetic field B and the infrared luminosity density ρL, B = KρL β. Contrary to the previous works [11] the normalization parameters K and β have been estimated according to the observable values of magnetic field of the galaxy clusters (BGC = 0.3?2μG) and assessed values of field in the voids of the Local Universe (BV oid = 10 ?12 ? 10?10 G). We construct the full-sky maps of expected deflection angles of UHE protons with the arrival energies E = 1020 eV and E = 4 · 1019 eV in the reconstructed EGMF for two boundary cases of ”strong” (BGC = 2μG, BV oid = 10 ?10 G) and ”weak” (BGC = 0.3μG, BV oid = 10 ?12 G) magnetic fields. It is found that average de- flections of protons with observable energies above 4 · 1019 eV and maximum energy in sources Emax = 10 22 eV are unimportant (comparable with the errors of modern detectors) only in the case of ”weak” EGMF model. 1 Introduction The nature of UHECRs with E 1019 eV is one of the most challenging problems of modern astrophysics [1, 2]. At these energies the cosmic ray particles strongly interact with the cosmic microwave background and their flux should be severely attenuated according to GZK cutoff of UHECR energy spectrum [3, 4]. AGASA detector in Japan has registered 11 events with energies above 1020 eV [5]. If galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields are not enough strong, then protons of these energies may not be significantly deflected so that some of the cosmic rays may point back to