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Spherical harmonic moments are well-suited for capturing anisotropy at any scale in the flux of cosmic rays. An unambiguous measurement of the full set of spherical harmonic coefficients requires full-sky coverage. This can be achieved by combining data from observatories located in both the northern and southern hemispheres. To this end, a joint analysis using data recorded at the Telescope Array and the Pierre Auger Observatory above 10 19 eV is presented in this work. The resulting multipolar expansion of the flux of cosmic rays allows us to perform a series of anisotropy searches, and in particular to report on the angular power spectrum of cosmic rays above 10 19 eV. No significant deviation from isotropic expectations is found throughout the analyses performed. Upper limits on the amplitudes of the dipole and quadrupole moments are derived as a function of the direction in the sky, varying between 7% and 13% for the dipole and between 7% and 10% for a symmetric quadrupole. © 2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Searches for large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above energy of 1019 eV at the Pierre auger observatory and the telescope array
Autor:Multitudinario:607
Filiación:Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Particulas-LIP, Instituto Superior Técnico-IST, Universidade de Lisboa-UL, Portugal
Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino (INAF), Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
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 and 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 Astropartículas, CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D. F., Mexico
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Università di Napoli 'Federico II' and 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, Adelaide, SA, 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
Università di Milano and Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy
Università di Roma II 'Tor Vergata' and Sezione INFN, Roma, Italy
Università di Catania and Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica 'E. de Giorgi' Dell'Universita Del Salento and Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy
Università di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina
Laboratoire de L'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, United States
SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, 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 de São Carlos, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States
Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche e Chimiche Dell'Università Dell'Aquila, INFN, Italy
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 Astropartículas, CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM, National Technological University, Faculty Mendoza, CONICET/CNEA, Mendoza, Argentina
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, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia
Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR), CONICET/U. N.R., 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 and CONICET, Argentina
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
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States
High Energy Astrophysics Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Saitama, Saitama, Japan
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan
Department of Physics, Institute for the Early Universe, Ewha Womans University, Seodaaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Department of Physics, Research Institute of Natural Science, Hanyang University, Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Department of Physics, Tokyo University of Science, Noda, Chiba, Japan
Department of Physics, Kinki University, Higashi Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Department of Physics, Yonsei University, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (WPI), Todai Institutes for Advanced Study, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
Department of Physics, Tokyo City University, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
Advanced Research Institute for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Department of Physics, Chiba University, Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, UNIST-gil, Ulsan, South Korea
Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Faculty of Science, Kochi University, Kochi, Kochi, Japan
Department of Physical Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan
Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Jang-an-gu, Suwon, South Korea
Service de Physique Théorique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Advanced Science Institute, RIKEN, Wako, Saitama, Japan
National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba, Chiba, Japan
Department of Physics, Ehime University, Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan
Konan University, Japan
NYU Abu Dhabi, Japan
Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas on Leave of Absence from Cinvestav, Japan
Palabras clave:Astroparticle physics; Cosmic rays
Año:2014
Volumen:794
Número:2
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/172
Título revista:Astrophysical Journal
Título revista abreviado:Astrophys. J.
ISSN:0004637X
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_0004637X_v794_n2_p_Multitudinario

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(2014) . Searches for large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above energy of 1019 eV at the Pierre auger observatory and the telescope array. Astrophysical Journal, 794(2).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/172
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Multitudinario:607. "Searches for large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above energy of 1019 eV at the Pierre auger observatory and the telescope array" . Astrophysical Journal 794, no. 2 (2014).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/172
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Multitudinario:607. "Searches for large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above energy of 1019 eV at the Pierre auger observatory and the telescope array" . Astrophysical Journal, vol. 794, no. 2, 2014.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/172
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Multitudinario:607. Searches for large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above energy of 1019 eV at the Pierre auger observatory and the telescope array. Astrophys. J. 2014;794(2).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/172