We derive lower bounds on the density of sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the lack of significant clustering in the arrival directions of the highest energy events detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory. The density of uniformly distributed sources of equal intrinsic intensity was found to be larger than ∼ (0.06-5) × 10 -4 Mpc -3 at 95% CL, depending on the magnitude of the magnetic deflections. Similar bounds, in the range (0.2-7) × 10 -4 Mpc -3 , were obtained for sources following the local matter distribution. © 2013 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab srl.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Bounds on the density of sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the Pierre Auger Observatory |
Autor: | Multitudinario:512 |
Filiación: | Centro Atómico Bariloche, Instituto Balseiro (CNEA-UNCuyo-CONICET), San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina Centro de Investigaciones en Láseres y Aplicaciones, CITEDEF and CONICET, Argentina Departamento de Física, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICET, Argentina IFLP, Universidad Nacional de la Plata and CONICET, La Plata, Argentina Instituto de Astronomía y Física Del Espacio (CONICET-UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Física de Rosario (IFIR), CONICET/U.N.R., Facultad de Ciencias Bioquímicas y Farmacéuticas U.N.R., Rosario, Argentina Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartí culas (CNEA, CONICET, UNSAM), Buenos Aires, Argentina National Technological University, Faculty Mendoza (CONICET/CNEA), Mendoza, Argentina Observatorio Pierre Auger, Malargüe, Argentina Observatorio Pierre Auger, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Malargüe, Argentina Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Carlos, SP, Brazil Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, SP, Brazil Universidade Estadual de Campinas, IFGW, Campinas, SP, Brazil Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Brazil Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil Universidade Federal Do ABC, Santo-André, SP, Brazil Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil Universidade Federal Fluminense, EEIMVR, Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil Rudjer Boškovic Institute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Prague, Czech Republic Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic Palacky University, RCPTM, Olomouc, Czech Republic Institut de Physique Nucléaire Dörsay (IPNO), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, Orsay, France Laboratoire de Läccélérateur Linéaire (LAL), Université Paris 11, CNRS-IN2P3, France 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 Joseph Fourier Grenoble, CNRS-IN2P3, Grenoble INP, France Station de Radioastronomie de Nančay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS/INSU, France SUBATECH, École des Mines de Nantes, CNRS-IN2P3, Université de Nantes, France Bergische Universiẗat Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus North, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus North, Institut für Prozessdatenverarbeitung und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - Campus South, Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik (IEKP), Karlsruhe, Germany Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany RWTH Aachen University, III, Physikalisches Institut A, Aachen, Germany Universiẗat Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Universiẗat Siegen, Siegen, Germany Dipartimento di Fisica Dell'Universitá, INFN, Genova, Italy Universitá Delläquila, INFN, Läquila, Italy Universitá di Milano, Sezione INFN, Milan, Italy Universitá di Napoli Federico II, Sezione INFN, Napoli, Italy Universitá di Roma II Tor Vergata, Sezione INFN, Rome, Italy Universitá di Catania, Sezione INFN, Catania, Italy Universitá di Torino, Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica E. de Giorgi Dell'Universitá Del Salento, Sezione INFN, Lecce, Italy Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo (INAF), Palermo, Italy Istituto di Fisica Dello Spazio Interplanetario (INAF), Universitá di Torino and Sezione INFN, Torino, Italy INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Del Gran Sasso, Assergi (Läquila), Italy Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Del IPN (CINVESTAV), México, Mexico Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Nikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, Netherlands ASTRON, Dwingeloo, Netherlands Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland University of Lódź, Lódź, Poland LIP, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania University of Bucharest, Physics Department, Romania University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia Laboratory for Astroparticle Physics, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia Institut de Física Corpuscular, CSIC-Universitat de Valéncia, Valencia, Spain Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain Universidad de Granada, C.A.F.P.E., Granada, Spain Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO, United States Fermilab, Batavia, IL, United States Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, United States Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, United States New York University, New York, NY, United States Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute, Chicago, IL, United States University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States Institute for Nuclear Science and Technology (INST), Hanoi, Viet Nam Now at Konan University, Japan Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas on Leave of Absence from Cinvestav, Mexico University of Maryland, United States NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
Palabras clave: | cosmic ray experiments; ultra high energy cosmic rays |
Año: | 2013 |
Volumen: | 2013 |
Número: | 5 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2013/05/009 |
Título revista: | Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics |
Título revista abreviado: | J. Cosmol. Astroparticle Phys. |
ISSN: | 14757516 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_14757516_v2013_n5_p_Multitudinario |