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The TUS observatory was the first orbital detector aimed at the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). It was launched on April 28, 2016, from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia and operated until December 2017. It collected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Francesco Fenu , Kenji Shinozaki , Mikhail Zotov , Mario Bertaina , Antonella Castellina , Alberto Cellino , Pavel Klimov

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

IceCube measures a diffuse neutrino flux comparable to the Waxman-Bahcall bound, which suggests the possibility that the ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have a common origin with diffuse high energy neutrinos. We propose high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-25 Qinyuan Zhang , Xishui Tian , Zhuo Li

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been one of the most widely discussed sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The recent results of Pierre Auger observatory (PAO) have indicated a possible composition change of UHECRs above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 Asaf Pe'er , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

We explore the possibility that the recently detected dipole anisotropy in the arrival directions of~$>8$~EeV ultra-high energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) arises due to the large-scale structure (LSS). We assume that the cosmic ray sources follow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 Noemie Globus , Tsvi Piran

The isotropy in the ultra high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) flux observed by Yakutsk and AGASA experiments, is a very strong constraint to production and propagation models alike. Most of the scenarios proposed in the literature should produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Gustavo Medina-Tanco , Torsten A. Ensslin

Recent precision measurements of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) arrival directions, spectrum and parameters related to the mass of the primary particle have been done by the HiRes, Pierre Auger and Telescope Array (TA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Rita C. dos Anjos , Vitor de Souza , Rogerio M. de Almeida , Edivaldo M. Santos

The origin of the ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) with energies above E > 1017eV, is still unknown. The discovery of their sources will reveal the engines of the most energetic astrophysical accelerators in the universe. This is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 M. T. Dova

The EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) project is developing a new mission concept for the scientific research of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from space. The EUSO wide-field telescope will look down from space onto the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Enrico Bozzo , Thomas Burch , Alessandra Ciapponi , Clemens Heese , Arno Hoogerwerf , Nicholas Lan , Andrii Neronov , Vincent Revol , Ross Stanley

Energetics of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) generated in the universe is crucial for pinning down their candidate sources. Using the recent Auger data on UHECR spectra, we calculate the UHECR energy generation rate density for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Yu Jiang , B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase

The origin of cosmic rays have remained a mistery for more than a century. JEM-EUSO is a pioneer space-based telescope that will be located at the International Space Station (ISS) and its aim is to detect Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Sáez-Cano , J. A. Morales de los Ríos , L. del Peral , A. Neronov , S. Wada , M. D. Rodríguez Frías

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 JEM-EUSO (Joint Exploratory Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory) collaboration is an international initiative studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and related phenomena. These particles, with energies exceeding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Zbigniew Plebaniak

The angular clustering of 5 Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) in the combined published AGASA-HiRes data has a probability of ~ 2 10^-3 of occurring by chance. A first analysis of the implications of the event energies and angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-14 Glennys R. Farrar

(Abridged) Data collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory (Auger) provide evidence for anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays (CRs) with energies >57 EeV that suggests a correlation with the positions of AGN located within ~75…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Igor V. Moskalenko , Lukasz Stawarz , Troy A. Porter , Chi C. Cheung

Cosmic rays (CRs) are protons and atomic nuclei that flow into our Solar system and reach the Earth with energies of up to ~10^21 eV. The sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with E >~ 10^19 eV remain unknown, although there…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander Khanin , Daniel Mortlock

The Pierre Auger Southern Observatory in Argentina has begun taking data as it is being developed up to a final enclosed area of 3000 square kilometres. A key aspect of the project is to provide information on the origin of the highest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Roger Clay

The origins of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) remain an open question. Several attempts have been made to cross-correlate the arrival directions of the UHECRs with catalogs of potential sources, but no definite conclusion has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Alexander Khanin , Daniel J. Mortlock

The origin of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) is an open question. In this proceeding, we first review the general physical requirements that a source must meet for acceleration to 10-100 EeV, including the consideration that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 James H. Matthews , Anthony R. Bell , Anabella T. Araudo , Katherine M. Blundell

The origin of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and neutrinos is still a mystery. Hadronic acceleration theory suggests that they should originate in the same sources (astrophysical or cosmological), together with gamma-rays. While…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 Jelena Petrovic