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Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: are they isotropic?

Astrophysics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

From the analysis of AGASA data above 4×10194 \times 10^{19} eV, we show that the ultra-high energy cosmic rays flux is neither purely isotropic, nor reflects the expected anisotropy from a pure source distribution that maps large scale structure in the local universe. The arrival distribution seems to be the result of a mixture of fluxes (e.g., dark matter halo plus large scale structure) or the superposition of a direct and a diffuse radiation field components respectively. Another viable option is an arbitrary extragalactic flux reprocessed by a magnetized galactic wind model as recently proposed in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009336,
  title  = {Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: are they isotropic?},
  author = {Gustavo Medina-Tanco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009336},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Astrophysical Journal accepted (September 2000) - 16 pages - 5 figures