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Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2008 Volume 87, Issue 4, Pages 215–219 (Mi jetpl40)

This article is cited in 16 papers

GRAVITY, ASTROPHYSICS

Search for extragalactic sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays

A. A. Ivanov

Shafer Institute of Cosmophysical Research and Aeronomy, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Lenina 31, Yakutsk, 677980, Russia

Abstract: Possible extragalactic sources of cosmic rays with energies above 4 × 1019 eV detected at the Yakutsk EAS array are sought. The correlation of the shower arrival directions with objects from Véron’s catalog that are located closer than 100 Mpc from the Earth confirms the observations at the Pierre Auger Observatory, as well as the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin effect on the spectrum of cosmic rays. The detailed analysis of the data reveals the classes of objects belonging to the active galactic nuclei that are the most probable sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays.

PACS: 96.40.Pq, 98.54.Cm, 98.70.Sa

Received: 11.12.2007
Revised: 17.01.2008


 English version:
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2008, 87:4, 185–189

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