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Comment on "Correlation between Compact Radio Lout Quasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays"

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

In a recent paper, Farrar and Biermann argue that there is a strong correlation between the direction of the five highest-energy cosmic-ray events and compact, radio-loud quasars. This Comment shows that this analysis contains several inconsistencies and errors so that the significance of any such correlation is certainly greatly overestimated and perhaps nonexistent.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9901026,
  title  = {Comment on "Correlation between Compact Radio Lout Quasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays"},
  author = {C. M. Hoffman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9901026},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

2 pages, REVTEX