RUS  ENG
Полная версия
ЖУРНАЛЫ // Письма в Журнал экспериментальной и теоретической физики // Архив

Письма в ЖЭТФ, 2001, том 74, выпуск 1, страницы 3–7 (Mi jetpl4144)

Эта публикация цитируется в 76 статьях

ГРАВИТАЦИЯ, АСТРОФИЗИКА

Correlation function of ultra-high energy cosmic rays favors point sources

P. G. Tinyakovab, I. I. Tkachevca

a Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Lausanne
c CERN Theory Division

Аннотация: We calculate the angular two-point correlation function of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) observed by AGASA and Yakutsk experiments. In both data sets, there is a strong signal at highest energies, which is concentrated in the first bin of the size of the angular resolution of the experiment. For the uniform distribution of sources, the probability of a chance clustering is $4\cdot10^{-6}$. Correlations are absent or not significant at larger angles. This favors the models with compact sources of UHECR.

PACS: 98.70.Sa

Поступила в редакцию: 18.05.2001

Язык публикации: английский


 Англоязычная версия: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2001, 74:1, 1–5


© МИАН, 2024