Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: are they isotropic?
Astrophysics
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
From the analysis of AGASA data above 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.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
Astrophysical Journal accepted (September 2000) - 16 pages - 5 figures