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ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY

Ultra-high energy cosmic ray correlations with Active Galactic Nuclei in the world dataset

G. I. Rubtsov^a, I. I. Tkachev^ab, A. D. Dolgov<sup>bcd

a</sup> Institute for Nuclear Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b Novosibirsk State University
^c University of Ferrara
^d Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Russian Federation State Scientific Center), Moscow

Abstract: Pierre Auger collaboration have recently put forward the hypothesis that the arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays correlate with the subset of local active galactic nuclei (AGN). We perform a blind test of AGN hypothesis using publicly available event sets collected by Yakutsk, AGASA, and HiRes experiments. The consistency of the procedure requires the event energies to be normalized towards the common energy scale. The number of correlating events in resulting data-set is 3 of 21 which is consistent with expected random background.

Received: 10.04.2012

Language: English

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2012, 95:10, 501–503

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