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Radio emission from cosmic ray air showers has the potential to become an additional, cost-effective observing technique for cosmic ray research, being largely complementary to the well-established particle detector and air fluorescence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tim Huege , Heino Falcke

We report on the energy dependence of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) in the very local interstellar medium (VLISM) as measured by the Low Energy Charged Particle (LECP) instrument on the Voyager 1 (V1) spacecraft. The LECP instrument includes…

The two-point angular correlation function is a traditional method used to search for deviations from expectations of isotropy. In this paper we develop and explore a statistically descriptive three-point method with the intended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-02 J. D. Hague , B. R. Becker , M. S. Gold , J. A. J. Matthews

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

IceTop is the cosmic-ray detector located on the surface of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, consisting of 81 pairs of ice-Cherenkov tanks. The rise in the energy threshold of air-shower measurements in IceTop due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-03 Megha Venugopal

We present results of elaborate four-dimensional simulations of the propagation of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR), which are based on a realistic astrophysical scenario. The distribution of the arrival directions of the UHECR is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-19 David Wittkowski , Karl-Heinz Kampert

We study the effect of the stochastic character of supernova explosions on the anisotropy of galactic cosmic rays below the knee. We conclude that if the bulk of cosmic rays are produced in supernova explosions the observed small and nearly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Erlykin , A. W. Wolfendale

Modern cosmic ray experiments consisting of large array of particle detectors measure the signals of electromagnetic or muon components or their combination. The correction for an amount of atmosphere passed is applied to the surface…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 J. Vicha , P. Travnicek , D. Nosek , J. Ebr

Several explanations for the existence of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays invoke the idea that they originate from the decay of massive particles created in the reheating following inflation. It has been suggested that the decay products can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gustavo Medina Tanco , Alan A. Watson

Motivated by the ~7 % dipole anisotropy in the distribution of ultra-high energy cosmic-rays (UHECRs) above 8 EeV, we explore the anisotropy induced by the large scale structure, using constrained simulations of the local Universe and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Noémie Globus , Tsvi Piran , Yehuda Hoffman , Edoardo Carlesi , Daniel Pomarède

The very high energy Galactic $\gamma$-ray sky is partially opaque in the ($0.1-10$) PeV energy range. In the light of the recently detected high energy neutrino flux by IceCube, a comparable very high energy $\gamma$-ray flux is expected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-09 Arman Esmaili , Pasquale Dario Serpico

The Pierre Auger Observatory has recently reported the detection of a dipole anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8 EeV with a post-trial significance of more than 5.2$\sigma$. This observation has profound consequences…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-30 Markus Ahlers

The results of measuring diurnal variations of extensive air showers with energy above 100 TeV detected by the Andyrchi air shower array in 1995-2002 are presented. It is shown that solar diurnal wave of intensity is formed by pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Kozyarivsky , A. S. Lidvansky , V. B. Petkov , T. I. Tulupova

BOOMERanG has recently resolved structures on the last scattering surface at redshift $\sim$ 1100 with high signal to noise ratio. We review the technical advances which made this possible, and we focus on the current results for maps and…

The detection of a dipole anisotropy in the sky distribution of sources in large-scale radio surveys can be used to constrain the magnitude and direction of our local motion with respect to an isotropically distributed extragalactic radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fronefield Crawford

Most cosmic-ray air shower arrays have focused on detecting electromagnetic shower particles and low energy muons. A few groups (most notably MACRO + EASTOP and SPASE + AMANDA) have studied the high energy muon component of showers.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Spencer R. Klein

High-energy cosmic rays, impinging on the atmosphere of the Earth initiate cascades of secondary particles, the extensive air showers. The electrons and positrons in the air shower emit electromagnetic radiation. This emission is detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-12 Jörg R. Hörandel , LOFAR key science project Cosmic Rays

The effect of surface anisotropy on the distribution of energy barriers in magnetic fine particles of nanometer size is discussed within the framework of the $T\ln(t/\tau_0)$ scaling approach. The comparison between the distributions of the…

In this article I review the main theoretical problems that are posed by the highest energy end of the observed cosmic ray spectrum, stressing the importance of establishing their composition in order to decide between proposed scenarios. I…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Enrique Zas

Recent observations have revealed structure on small angular scales in the anisotropy data of cosmic rays at multi TeV energies. Even though the absolute amplitudes are very small, these effects are somewhat surprising and a wide range of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Luke O'C. Drury