Testing a reported correlation between arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and a flux pattern from nearby starburst galaxies using Telescope Array Data

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaebf9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaebf9</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaebf9" target="_blank" >10.3847/2041-8213/aaebf9</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Testing a reported correlation between arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and a flux pattern from nearby starburst galaxies using Telescope Array Data

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The Pierre Auger Collaboration (Auger) recently reported a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies above 39 EeV and the flux pattern of 23 nearby starburst galaxies (SBGs). In this Letter, we tested the same hypothesis using cosmic rays detected by the Telescope Array experiment (TA) in the 9 yr period from 2008 May to 2017 May. Unlike the Auger analysis, we did not optimize the parameter values but kept them fixed to the best-fit values found by Auger, namely 9.7% for the anisotropic fraction of cosmic rays assumed to originate from the SBGs in the list and 12.9° for the angular scale of the correlations. The energy threshold that we adopted is 43 EeV, corresponding to 39 EeV in Auger when taking into account the energy-scale difference between two experiments. We find that the TA data is compatible with isotropy to within 1.1σ and with the Auger result to within 1.4σ, meaning that it is not capable to discriminate between these two hypotheses.n

Název v anglickém jazyce

Testing a reported correlation between arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and a flux pattern from nearby starburst galaxies using Telescope Array Data

Popis výsledku anglicky

The Pierre Auger Collaboration (Auger) recently reported a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies above 39 EeV and the flux pattern of 23 nearby starburst galaxies (SBGs). In this Letter, we tested the same hypothesis using cosmic rays detected by the Telescope Array experiment (TA) in the 9 yr period from 2008 May to 2017 May. Unlike the Auger analysis, we did not optimize the parameter values but kept them fixed to the best-fit values found by Auger, namely 9.7% for the anisotropic fraction of cosmic rays assumed to originate from the SBGs in the list and 12.9° for the angular scale of the correlations. The energy threshold that we adopted is 43 EeV, corresponding to 39 EeV in Auger when taking into account the energy-scale difference between two experiments. We find that the TA data is compatible with isotropy to within 1.1σ and with the Auger result to within 1.4σ, meaning that it is not capable to discriminate between these two hypotheses.n

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

—

OECD FORD obor

10303 - Particles and field physics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/EF15_003%2F0000437" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000437: Kosmologie, gravitace a temný sektor vesmíru</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Astrophysical Journal Letters

ISSN

2041-8205

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

867

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

5

Strana od-do

1-5

Kód UT WoS článku

000449967900002

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85056726429