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The First Scientific Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Astrophysics 2010-04-15 v1

Abstract

The southern site of the Pierre Auger Observatory is under the construction near Malargue in Argentina and now more than 60% of the detectors are completed. The observatory has been collecting data for over 1 year and the cumulative exposure is already similar to that of the largest forerunner experiments. The hybrid technique provides model-independent energy measurements from the Fluorescence Detector to calibrate the Surface Detector. Based on this technique, the first estimation of the energy spectrum above 3 EeV has been presented and is discussed in this paper.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0601035,
  title  = {The First Scientific Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory},
  author = {T. Yamamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0601035},
  year   = {2010}
}

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4 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of the PANIC 2005 conference