Core Project Papers

Rachen, J.P.; Universal prior on extragalactic cosmic ray production; Paper presented at the 28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-20 December 2015.
Basic scaling laws for cosmic ray production in the Universe and a theoretical explanation for the Hillas plot.

Rachen, J.P., Jasche, J, van Vliet, A., and others; Towards a cosmological prior on extragalactic cosmic ray production; to be published in 2017.
Application of cosmic ray production scaling laws to large scale structure formation simulations to construct a prior on extragalactic UHECR arrival directions.

Steininger, T., van der Velden, E., Haverkorn, M., Enßlin, T.A., Jasche, J., Rachen, J.P., and others; IMAGINE: A Bayesian framework for Galactic magnetic field model sampling. To be published in 2017.
Presentation of the IMAGINE software and initial test results using standard GMF models.

Rodrigues, L.F.S., Shukurov, A., and others; TBA. To be published.
Basic mathematics and properties of the dynamo based GMF model.

Associated Papers

Ovchinnikov, I.V., Enßlin, T.A.; Kinematic dynamo, supersymmetry breaking, and chaos; Physical Review D, 93, 085023 (2016).
A paper inspired by the discussions at our meetings.

Thoudam, S., Rachen, J. P., van Vliet, A., Achterberg, A., Buitink, S., Falcke, H., Hörandel, J. R.; Cosmic-ray energy spectrum and composition up to the ankle: the case for a second Galactic component; Astronomy & Astrophysics, 595, A33 (2016).
Discussed at second team meeting as a potential link between properties of Galactic winds to composition measurements at the “ankle” of the cosmic ray spectrum.