Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Some proposals to account for the highest energy cosmic rays predict that they should point to their sources. We study the five highest energy events (E>10^20 eV) and find they are all aligned with compact, radio-loud quasars. The probability that these alignments are coincidental is 0.005, given the accuracy of the position measurements and the rarity of such sources. The source quasars have redshifts between 0.3 and 2.2. If the correlation pointed out here is confirmed by further data, the primary must be a new hadron or one produced by a novel mechanism.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9806242,
title = {Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays},
author = {Glennys R. Farrar and Peter L. Biermann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9806242},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 tables, revtex. with some versions of latex it's necessary to break out the tables and latex them separately using article.sty rather than revtex.sty