D. S. Gorbunov, P. G. Tinyakov, I. Tkachev, S. V. Troitsky, “On correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extra-galactic objects reported by the Pierre Auger Collaboration”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 2008, Volume 87, Issue 9,Pages <nobr>547

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GRAVITY, ASTROPHYSICS

On correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extra-galactic objects reported by the Pierre Auger Collaboration

D. S. Gorbunov^a, P. G. Tinyakov^ab, I. Tkachev^a, S. V. Troitsky^a

^a Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117312, Russia
^b Service de Physique Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

Abstract: We argue that the data published by the Pierre Auger Collaboration disfavor at 99% confidence level their hypothesis that most of the highest-energy cosmic rays are protons from nearby astrophysical sources, either Active Galactic Nuclei or other objects with a similar spatial distribution.

PACS: 98.70.Sa

Received: 26.03.2008

Language: English