TY  - JOUR
AU  - AL-Zetoun, Ala'a
AU  - van Vliet, Arjen
AU  - Taylor, Andrew
AU  - Winter, Walter
TI  - Constraining the Extragalactic Magnetic Field: Auger Data Meet UHECR Propagation Modeling
JO  - Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
VL  - 545
IS  - 4
SN  - 0035-8711
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
M1  - PUBDB-2025-01940
M1  - 2506.16169
SP  - staf2203
PY  - 2026
AB  - Recent analyses from the Pierre Auger Collaboration suggest correlations between the arrival directions of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) and catalogs of starburst galaxies (SGBs) and jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs). We revisit these analyses using the same methodology as  , but explicitly incorporating UHECR deflections in turbulent extragalactic magnetic fields (EGMFs). We demonstrate that while for SBGs the same sources as for the generic  analysis dominate the catalog correlations, jetted AGNs are dominated by Centaurus A when accounting for source distances and deflections. Using our framework, we derive 90% confidence level upper limits on the local EGMF strength of 4.4 nG Mpc<sup>1/2</sup> for SBGs and 6.7 nG Mpc<sup>1/2</sup> for jetted AGNs. Assuming instead that the UHECR deflections predominantly arise from the Galactic magnetic field (GMF), we obtain a GMF upper limit of 1.4  μG kpc<sup>1/2</sup> for a Galactic halo size of 30 kpc.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.1093/mnras/staf2203
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/631268
ER  -