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  • Titel: Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above 32 EeV from Phase One of the Pierre Auger Observatory
  • Beteiligte: Abreu, P.; Aglietta, M.; Albury, J. M.; Allekotte, I.; Almeida Cheminant, K.; Almela, A.; Alvarez-Muñiz, J.; Alves Batista, R.; Ammerman Yebra, J.; Anastasi, G. A.; Anchordoqui, L.; Andrada, B.; Andringa, S.; Aramo, C.; Araújo Ferreira, P. R.; Arnone, E.; Arteaga Velázquez, J. C.; Asorey, H.; Assis, P.; Avila, G.; Avocone, E.; Badescu, A. M.; Bakalova, A.; Balaceanu, A.; [...]
  • Erschienen: American Astronomical Society, 2022
  • Erschienen in: The Astrophysical Journal
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  • DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7d4e
  • ISSN: 0004-637X; 1538-4357
  • Schlagwörter: Space and Planetary Science ; Astronomy and Astrophysics
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>A promising energy range to look for angular correlations between cosmic rays of extragalactic origin and their sources is at the highest energies, above a few tens of EeV (1 EeV ≡ 10<jats:sup>18</jats:sup> eV). Despite the flux of these particles being extremely low, the area of ∼3000 km<jats:sup>2</jats:sup> covered at the Pierre Auger Observatory, and the 17 yr data-taking period of the <jats:italic>Phase</jats:italic> <jats:italic>1</jats:italic> of its operations, have enabled us to measure the arrival directions of more than 2600 ultra-high-energy cosmic rays above 32 EeV. We publish this data set, the largest available at such energies from an integrated exposure of 122,000 km<jats:sup>2</jats:sup> sr yr, and search it for anisotropies over the 3.4<jats:italic>π</jats:italic> steradians covered with the Observatory. Evidence for a deviation in excess of isotropy at intermediate angular scales, with ∼15° Gaussian spread or ∼25° top-hat radius, is obtained at the 4<jats:italic>σ</jats:italic> significance level for cosmic-ray energies above ∼40 EeV.</jats:p>
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