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We considered propagation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) through the galaxy. We investigated models with sources of UHECR distributed in the same way as Cold Dark Matter (CDM) in a self-consistent way, taking into account both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 O. E. Kalashev , V. A. Kuzmin , D. V. Semikoz

The Galactic magnetic field, locally observed to be on the order of a few $\mu$G, is sufficiently strong to induce deflections in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We present a method that establishes measures of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael S. Sutherland , Brian M. Baughman , James J. Beatty

We analyze in detail the two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov test as a tool to learn about the distribution of the sources of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays. We confront in particular models based on AGN observed in X rays, on galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diego Harari , Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet

We study the angular power spectrum estimate in order to search for large scale anisotropies in the arrival directions distribution of the highest-energy cosmic rays. We show that this estimate can be performed even in the case of partial…

Anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) produced by powerful sources is numerically evaluated. We show that, taking account of the Galactic magnetic field, nondetection of significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-22 Hajime Takami , Kohta Murase , Charles D. Dermer

We present a method to analyse arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) using a classifier defined by a deep convolutional neural network trained on a HEALPix grid. To illustrate a high effectiveness of the method, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 Oleg Kalashev , Maxim Pshirkov , Mikhail Zotov

Ground-based full-sky studies of the angular distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays require combining data from different observatories, such as the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) and the Telescope Array (TA),…

We analyze the distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory in 10 years of operation. The data set, about three times larger than that used in earlier studies, includes arrival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-01 Pierre Auger Collaboration

The distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays may yield clues to their mysterious origin. We introduce a method of {\it invariant statistics} to analyze cosmic ray data which eliminates coordinate-dependent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Soebur Razzaque , John P. Ralston

We estimate the local number density of sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) based on the statistical features of their arrival direction distribution. We calculate the arrival distributions of protons above $10^{19}$ eV taking…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato

Anisotropy is very important to understand cosmic ray (CR) source and interstellar environment. The theoretical explanation of cosmic rays anisotropy from experiments remains challenging and even puzzling for a long time. In this paper, by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Haoran Meng , Gang Qin

Analysing the available data relative to the anisotropies of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) at intermediate angular scales, we examine to what extent they can be used to constrain the origin of these particles, and what could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 Denis Allard , Julien Aublin , Bruny Baret , Etienne Parizot

In this study, we investigated the anisotropy of diffusive Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) by employing three cosmological models: two models from the $f(R, T)$ gravity theory and the other is the standard $\Lambda$CDM model. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Swaraj Pratim Sarmah , Umananda Dev Goswami

We study the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) in the Galaxy, concentrating on the energy range below the ankle in the spectrum at 4 EeV. A Monte-Carlo method, based on analytical solutions to the time-dependent diffusion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Martin Pohl , David Eichler

We study the time dependent propagation of sub-ankle ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) originating from point-like Galactic sources. We show that drift in the Galactic magnetic field (GMF) may play an important role in the propagation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Rahul Kumar , David Eichler

In the last decade, a number of experiments dealt with the problem of measuring the arrival direction distribution of cosmic rays, looking for information on the propagation mechanisms and the identification of their sources. Any deviation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Roberto Iuppa , Giuseppe Di Sciascio

The measurement of large scale anisotropies in cosmic ray arrival directions is generally performed through harmonic analyses of the right ascension distribution as a function of energy. These measurements are challenging due to the small…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-29 Olivier Deligny , Francesco Salamida

The arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays appear to be approximately isotropically distributed over the whole sky, but the last-generation UHECR detector arrays, the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) and the Telescope Array…

The cosmological principle asserts that the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic on large enough scales. However, alternative cosmological models can bring about anisotropies through local inhomogeneities, anisotropic evolution, or exotic…

Arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) exhibit mainly an isotropic distribution with some small deviations in particular energy bins. In this paper, the Yakutsk array data are tested for circular uniformity of arrival…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-24 A. A. Ivanov