The Mission
UHECR Today exists to make ultra-high-energy cosmic ray science accessible to everyone — from curious students to professional physicists. We believe that open data and transparent methodology are essential for scientific progress.
The site serves as a central hub for UHECR research, providing educational content, links to public data sources, and reporting on new discoveries — including original research conducted using publicly available datasets.
The Discovery
In 2025, analysis of public data from the Pierre Auger Observatory and LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA revealed an unexpected correlation: ultra-high-energy cosmic rays appear to arrive before gravitational wave mergers, not after as all previous models assumed.
This finding — achieved with zero free parameters and validated at 27.6σ significance — suggests a new acceleration mechanism operating during the inspiral phase of compact binary mergers. The proposed Selective Transient Field (STF) framework provides a theoretical basis for these observations.
All data and methods are publicly available for independent verification.
Contact
For Press
Media inquiries are welcome. Key resources:
- Main discovery story — accessible summary
- Full paper on Zenodo — technical details, code, data
- Research overview — context and significance
High-resolution graphics and additional materials available upon request.
Open Source
This website and all analysis code are open source. The research uses exclusively public data from Pierre Auger Observatory, LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA, and Fermi GBM. Independent verification is not just welcomed — it's encouraged.