Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-energy cosmic rays with E ≥ 6×1019 eV by analyzing cosmic rays with energies above E ≥ 5×1018 eV arriving within an angular...

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Publicado: 2015
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_14346044_v75_n6_p_Multitudinario
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spelling paper:paper_14346044_v75_n6_p_Multitudinario2023-06-08T16:15:03Z Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-energy cosmic rays with E ≥ 6×1019 eV by analyzing cosmic rays with energies above E ≥ 5×1018 eV arriving within an angular separation of approximately 15∘. We characterize the energy distributions inside these regions by two independent methods, one searching for angular dependence of energy-energy correlations and one searching for collimation of energy along the local system of principal axes of the energy distribution. No significant patterns are found with this analysis. The comparison of these measurements with astrophysical scenarios can therefore be used to obtain constraints on related model parameters such as strength of cosmic-ray deflection and density of point sources. © 2015, The Author(s). 2015 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_14346044_v75_n6_p_Multitudinario http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_14346044_v75_n6_p_Multitudinario
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description Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-energy cosmic rays with E ≥ 6×1019 eV by analyzing cosmic rays with energies above E ≥ 5×1018 eV arriving within an angular separation of approximately 15∘. We characterize the energy distributions inside these regions by two independent methods, one searching for angular dependence of energy-energy correlations and one searching for collimation of energy along the local system of principal axes of the energy distribution. No significant patterns are found with this analysis. The comparison of these measurements with astrophysical scenarios can therefore be used to obtain constraints on related model parameters such as strength of cosmic-ray deflection and density of point sources. © 2015, The Author(s).
title Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
spellingShingle Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_short Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_full Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_fullStr Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_full_unstemmed Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_sort search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the pierre auger observatory
publishDate 2015
url https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_14346044_v75_n6_p_Multitudinario
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_14346044_v75_n6_p_Multitudinario
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