Showing upper limits on the reachable cosmic ray energy dependent on the size of the acceleration region and the magnetic field strength.
Simplified version - based on publications (see below) with some approximations. Please use the Zenodo link for citation.
German version and english version available:
This plot has been used in E.Pueschel, G.Maier, Extrem beschleunigend; Physik Journal Jan 2022
Notebook used for plotting. All packages can be installed using conda (matplotlib, astropy, pyyaml)
conda env create -f environment.yml
conda activate HillasPlot
Data of all objects to be drawn is read from two yaml files.
HillasObjects-simplified.yam: List of objects to be plotted. Given is object type (Marker, Rectangle, Trapezoid), coordinates, and labels.
ParticleAcceleration.yaml: List of lines to be drawn for maximal achievable energy using the Hillas formula:
Set the language at the top of the notebook.
- Hillas, M., Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 1984 22:425
- Ptitsyna, Kseniya V.; Troitsky, Sergei V., Physics Uspekhi, Volume 53, Issue 7, pp. 691-701 (2010). arXiv:0808.0367
- Lobato, Ronaldo V.; Coelho, Jaziel G.; Malheiro, M., 2017JPhCS.861a2005L
- Artsen, M.G., et al, Advances in Space Research, Volume 62, Issue 10, p. 2902-2930; arXiv:1701.03731 (Figure 1)
- Alves Batista, R., Biteau, J., Bustamante, M., et al., 2019, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 6, 23. arXiv:1903.06714 (Figure 11)