2015ApJ...804...15A


Query : 2015ApJ...804...15A

2015ApJ...804...15A - Astrophys. J., 804, 15 (2015/May-1)

Searches for anisotropies in the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays detected by the pierre auger observatory.

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A., ZAMORANO B., ZAS E., ZAVRTANIK D., ZAVRTANIK M., ZEPEDA A., ZHOU J., ZHU Y., ZIMBRES SILVA M., ZIOLKOWSKI M., ZUCCARELLO F. (The Pierre Auger Collaboration)

Abstract (from CDS):

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 directions with zenith angles up to 80°, thus covering from -90° to +45 ° in declination. After updating the fraction of events correlating with the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the Véron-Cetty and Véron catalog, we subject the arrival directions of the data with energies in excess of 40 EeV to different tests for anisotropy. We search for localized excess fluxes, self-clustering of event directions at angular scales up to 30°, and different threshold energies between 40 and 80 EeV. We then look for correlations of cosmic rays with celestial structures both in the Galaxy (the Galactic Center and Galactic Plane) and in the local universe (the Super-Galactic Plane). We also examine their correlation with different populations of nearby extragalactic objects: galaxies in the 2MRS catalog, AGNs detected by Swift-BAT, radio galaxies with jets, and the Centaurus A (Cen A) galaxy. None of the tests show statistically significant evidence of anisotropy. The strongest departures from isotropy (post-trial probability ∼ 1.4%) are obtained for cosmic rays with E > 58 EeV in rather large windows around Swift AGNs closer than 130 Mpc and brighter than 1044 erg/s (18° radius), and around the direction of Cen A (15° radius).

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Journal keyword(s): acceleration of particles - astroparticle physics

Simbad objects: 11

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Number of rows : 11
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
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1 NGC 612 Sy2 01 33 57.751 -36 29 35.80   13.90 13.15 12.33   ~ 252 0
2 NAME Psc-Per Supercluster SCG 02 33.2 +41 37           ~ 444 1
3 NGC 1142 Sy2 02 55 12.2311509144 -00 11 00.807149472   15.42 14.41     ~ 350 1
4 Z 184-50 BLL 11 04 27.3140835504 +38 12 31.798495872   13.50 12.90 8.31   ~ 2841 1
5 MCG-04-30-007 Sy2 12 38 54.5928340392 -27 18 28.009897704   14.59   12.87   ~ 119 1
6 ACO 3526 ClG 12 48 49.2 -41 18 17           ~ 1154 2
7 NAME Centaurus A BLL 13 25 27.61521044 -43 01 08.8050291   8.18 6.84 6.66   ~ 4774 3
8 IC 4329 BiC 13 49 05.314 -30 17 45.20   11.96 11.54 10.31   ~ 192 2
9 Granat 1734-292 Sy2 17 37 28.3811310912 -29 08 02.119558272           ~ 160 1
10 NAME Galactic Center reg 17 45 39.60213 -29 00 22.0000           ~ 16269 0
11 NAME CENTAURUS SUPERCL SCG ~ ~           ~ 30 0

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