The Mysterious Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Clustering
Astrophysics
2014-10-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We examine the correlation between compact radio quasars (redshifts in the range ) and the arrival direction of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays forming clusters. Our Monte Carlo simulation reveals a statistically significant correlation on the AGASA sample: the chance probability of this effect being less than 1%. The implications of this result on the origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0106501,
title = {The Mysterious Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray Clustering},
author = {Luis A. Anchordoqui and Haim Goldberg and Stephen Reucroft and Gustavo E. Romero and John Swain and Diego F. Torres},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0106501},
year = {2014}
}
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