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Limits on Source Distances for the Most Energetic Cosmic Rays
R. Lampard, R. W. Clay, B. R. Dawson
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia / Volume 14 / Issue 3 / 1997

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05 March 2013, pp. 258-264
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The propagation of the highest energy cosmic rays through the 2·7 K microwave background is considered. Photo-pion production interactions cause energy losses for primary cosmic ray protons which result in significant energy degradation over intergalactic distances. The process of energy loss is discussed and an estimate is made of the average distances travelled for observed cosmic rays with a range of energies, assuming a power law source spectrum. At energies over 1020 eV, the average distances travelled are a few tens of megaparsecs, limiting possible sources to the volume dominated by the supergalactic plane.