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Extragalactic magnetic fields and the second knee in the cosmic-ray spectrum

Extragalactic magnetic fields and the second knee in the cosmic-ray spectrum

Recent work suggests that the cosmic-ray spectrum may be dominated by Galactic sources up to $\ensuremath{\sim}{10}^{17.5}$ eV, and by an extra-Galactic component beyond, provided this latter cuts off below the transition energy. Here it is shown that this cut-off could be interpreted in this framework as a signature of extra-galactic …