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Pis'ma v Zhurnal Èksperimental'noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2008, Volume 87, Issue 9, Pages 547–549
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This article is cited in 51 scientific papers (total in 51 papers)
GRAVITY, ASTROPHYSICS
On correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extra-galactic objects reported by the Pierre Auger Collaboration
D. S. Gorbunova, P. G. Tinyakovab, I. Tkacheva, S. V. Troitskya 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.
Received: 26.03.2008
Citation:
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., 87:9 (2008), 547–549; JETP Letters, 87:9 (2008), 461–463
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