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We generalize the Maximum Likelihood-type method used to study cross correlations between a catalog of candidate astrophysical sources and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), to allow for differing source luminosities. The new method is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ronnie Jansson , Glennys R. Farrar

The identification of potential sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remains challenging due to magnetic deflections and propagation losses, which are particularly strong for nuclei. In previous iterations of this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-19 Keito Watanabe , Anatoli Fedynitch , Francesca Capel , Hiroyuki Sagawa

A striking concentration of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) events observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory around the direction of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A revives the idea that radio galaxies may be dominant sources of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-12 Jorg P. Rachen

Cosmic neutrino events detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory with energy $\gtrsim 30$ TeV have poor angular resolutions to reveal their origin. Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), with better angular resolutions at $>60$ EeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Reetanjali Moharana , Soebur Razzaque

Large-scale accretion shocks around massive clusters of galaxies, generically expected in hierarchical scenarios of cosmological structure formation, are shown to be potential sources of the observed ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-08 Susumu Inoue , Guenter Sigl , Francesco Miniati , Eric Armengaud

Ultra High Cosmic Rays (UHECR) should be tracing their sources, making a new astronomy. Their events counting are finally growing, by Auger experiment, into cosmic sky. Their map should follow the mass distribution in a narrow cosmic volume…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-14 D. Fargion , D. D'Armiento

The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest detector of ultra--high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). It uses an array of fluorescence telescopes and particle detectors at the ground to obtain detailed measurements of the energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-02 Dariusz Gora

Measurements of anisotropies in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays are crucial to pinpoint their sources, which are yet to be discovered. A dipolar anisotropy in right ascension above 8~EeV has been detected by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-28 Marta Bianciotto

One of the most challenging open questions regarding the origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) deals with the shape of the source emission spectra. A commonly-used simplifying assumption is that the source spectra of the highest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-15 Marco Stein Muzio , Luis A. Anchordoqui , Michael Unger

The AUGER Collaboration has recently published the precise energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 1 EeV, which exhibits rich and interesting features. These features provide an opportunity to investigate the galactic propagation and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-16 Weikang Gao , Dan Li , Wei Liu , Hua Yue , Hongbo Hu

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are the highest energy messengers in the universe, with energies up to $10^{20}$ eV. Studies of astrophysical particles (nuclei, electrons, neutrinos and photons) at their highest observed energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-25 Joao de Mello Neto

Recently, the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment claims that there is no small scale anisotropy in the arrival distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above $E>10^{19}$ eV contrary to the Akeno Giant Air Shower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hiroyuki Yoshiguchi , Shigehiro Nagataki , Katsuhiko Sato

The origin of the ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, $E>10^{18}$ eV) is still uncertain. However, great progress has been achieved due to the data taken by The Pierre Auger and Telescope Array observatories. The UHECR flux presents two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-04 A. D. Supanitsky , G. Medina-Tanco

We report the results of 3-D simulations of non-diffusive propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) (E > 10^{20} eV) through the intergalactic and extended halo media. We quantify the expected angular and temporal correlations…

We present an update on the arrival-direction analyses conducted on intermediate angular scales using the complete Phase I data of the Pierre Auger Observatory up to the end of $2022$ with a total exposure of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-22 Lorenzo Apollonio

Recently the AGASA Collaboration presented data suggesting a significant clustering of ultra-high energy cosmic rays coming from the outer Galaxy region. In this paper we calculate expected cosmic ray arrival distributions for several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Ralph Engel , Todor Stanev

Angular correlations of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with cosmologically distant sources may provide clues to these mysterious events. We compare cosmic ray tracks with energies above $ 10^{20}eV$ to a compilation of radio-loud compact QSO…

Motivated by recent Pierre Auger result on the correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the nearby active galactic nuclei, we explore possible ultrahigh energy cosmic ray (UHECR) source distributions and their effects on GZK…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-23 Chia-Chun Lu , Guey-Lin Lin

We interpret the correlation between local star-forming galaxy positions and ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) directions, recently detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO), in terms of physical parameters: the local density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-07 Arjen van Vliet , Andrea Palladino , Andrew Taylor , Walter Winter

Abstract. We discuss recent results on the clustering, composition and distribution of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) in the sky; from the energy of several tens of EeV in the dipole anisotropy, up to the highest energy of a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-19 Daniele Fargion , Pier Giorgio De Sanctis Lucentini , Maxim Y. Khlopov