On Temporal Variations of the Multi-TeV Cosmic Ray Anisotropy using the Tibet III Air Shower Array
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2015-05-18 v1
Abstract
We analyze the large-scale two-dimensional sidereal anisotropy of multi-TeV cosmic rays by Tibet Air Shower Array, with the data taken from 1999 November to 2008 December. To explore temporal variations of the anisotropy, the data set is divided into nine intervals, each in a time span of about one year. The sidereal anisotropy of magnitude about 0.1% appears fairly stable from year to year over the entire observation period of nine years. This indicates that the anisotropy of TeV Galactic cosmic rays remains insensitive to solar activities since the observation period covers more than a half of the 23rd solar cycle.
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@article{arxiv.1001.2646,
title = {On Temporal Variations of the Multi-TeV Cosmic Ray Anisotropy using the Tibet III Air Shower Array},
author = {M. Amenomori and X. J. Bi and D. Chen and S. W. Cui and Danzengluobu and L. K. Ding and X. H. Ding and C. Fan and C. F. Feng and Zhaoyang Feng and Z. Y. Feng and X. Y. Gao and Q. X. Geng and Q. B. Gou and H. W. Guo and H. H. He and M. He and K. Hibino and N. Hotta and Haibing Hu and H. B. Hu and J. Huang and Q. Huang and H. Y. Jia and L. Jiang and F. Kajino and K. Kasahara and Y. Katayose and C. Kato and K. Kawata and Labaciren and G. M. Le and A. F. Li and H. C. Li and J. Y. Li and C. Liu and Y. -Q. Lou and H. Lu and X. R. Meng and K. Mizutani and J. Mu and K. Munakata and A. Nagai and H. Nanjo and M. Nishizawa and M. Ohnishi and I. Ohta and S. Ozawa and T. Saito and T. Y. Saito and M. Sakata and T. K. Sako and M. Shibata and A. Shiomi and T. Shirai and H. Sugimoto and M. Takita and Y. H. Tan and N. Tateyama and S. Torii and H. Tsuchiya and S. Udo and B. Wang and H. Wang and Y. Wang and Y. G. Wang and H. R. Wu and L. Xue and Y. Yamamoto and C. T. Yan and X. C. Yang and S. Yasue and Z. H. Ye and G. C. Yu and A. F. Yuan and T. Yuda and H. M. Zhang and J. L. Zhang and N. J. Zhang and X. Y. Zhang and Y. Zhang and Yi Zhang and Ying Zhang and Zhaxisangzhu and X. X. Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1001.2646},
year = {2015}
}
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18 pages, 2 figures, accepted by The Astrophysical Journal