Measurements of air showers made using the hybrid technique developed with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for point sources of EeV photons anywhere in the exposed sky. A multivariate analysis reduces the background of hadronic cosmic rays. The search is sensitive to a declination band from -85° to +20°, in an energy range from 10 17.3 eV to 10 18.5 eV. No photon point source has been detected. An upper limit on the photon flux has been derived for every direction. The mean value of the energy flux limit that results from this, assuming a photon spectral index of -2, is 0.06 eV cm -2 s -1 , and no celestial direction exceeds 0.25 eV cm -2 s -1 . These upper limits constrain scenarios in which EeV cosmic ray protons are emitted by non-transient sources in the Galaxy. © 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved..
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | A search for point sources of EeV photons |
Autor: | Multitudinario:485 |
Filiación: | Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa (UL), Portugal Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States Fermilab, Batavia, IL, United States Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Centro Atómico Bariloche, Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina New York University, New York, NY, United States Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartí culas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, D. F. Mexico, Mexico Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Università di Napoli Federico II, Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States Department of Physics and Astronomy, Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, NY, United States Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Energies (LPNHE), Universités Paris 6 et Paris 7, CNRS-IN2P3, Paris, France Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS/IN2P3, France Observatorio Pierre Auger and Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania University of Adelaide, S. A., Adelaide, Australia Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Campus South), Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany Karlsruhe Institute of Technology(Campus North), Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso, Assergi (L'Aquila), Italy Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States 'Horia Hulubei' National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest- Magurele, Romania Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, United States Universidad de Granada and C. A.F. P.E., Granada, Spain Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, Mexico Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States Università di Milano, Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy Università di Roma II Tor Vergata, Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica E. de Giorgi, Dell'Università Del Salento, Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy Università di Torino, Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Michoacan, Morelia, Mexico Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, SP, Campinas, Brazil Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, United States SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, Université de Nantes, France Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, France Instituto de Astronomía y Física Del Espacio (CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICET, Argentina Universidade Federal Fluminense, EEIMVR, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Carlos, SP, Brazil Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Chimiche dell'Università dell'Aquila and INFN, Italy Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST), Hanoi, Viet Nam KVI - Center for Advanced Radiation Technology, University of Groningen, Netherlands IFLP, Universidad Nacional de la Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina RWTH Aachen University III, Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands Experimental Particle Physics Department, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartí culas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), National Technological University, Faculty Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Mendoza, Argentina Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Campus North), Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic Institute of Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF), Palermo, Italy University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States Faculdade Independente Do Nordeste, Vitória da Conquista, Brazil Universidade Federal Do ABC, Santo-André, SP, Brazil Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States Rudjer Bošković Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR), CONICET/U. N.R. and Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U. N.R., Rosario, Argentina Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS, Brazil Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF, CONICET, Argentina Institut de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de València, Valencia, Spain Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università, INFN, Genova, Italy University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States Gran Sasso Science Institute (INFN), L'Aquila, Italy University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Romania Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Engenharia de Lorena, Lorena, SP, Brazil Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States Konan University, Japan NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas on Leave of Absence from Cinvestav, Mexico |
Palabras clave: | astroparticle physics; cosmic rays; methods: data analysis |
Año: | 2014 |
Volumen: | 789 |
Número: | 2 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/789/2/160 |
Título revista: | Astrophysical Journal |
Título revista abreviado: | Astrophys. J. |
ISSN: | 0004637X |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_0004637X_v789_n2_p_Multitudinario |