Monte Carlo Bayesian search for the plausible source of the Telescope Array hotspot

HN He, A Kusenko, S Nagataki, BB Zhang, RZ Yang… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
The Telescope Array (TA) collaboration has reported a hotspot of 19 ultrahigh-energy
cosmic rays (UHECRs). Using a universal model with one source and energy-dependent …

Search for anisotropy of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays with the telescope array experiment

T Abu-Zayyad, R Aida, M Allen… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the anisotropy of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) events collected by the
Telescope Array (TA) detector in the first 40 months of operation. Following earlier studies …

Maximum likelihood analysis of clusters of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays

G Sigl, M Lemoine, AV Olinto - Physical Review D, 1997 - APS
We present a numerical code designed to conduct a likelihood analysis for clusters of
nucleons above 10 19 eV originating from discrete astrophysical sources such as powerful …

Hotspot update, and a new excess of events on the sky seen by the Telescope Array experiment

Telescope Array Collaboration - Proceedings of Science, 2022 - yonsei.elsevierpure.com
Abstract The Telescope Array (TA) experiment, the largest observatory studying ultrahigh
energy cosmic rays in the northern hemisphere, has reported an excess in the arrival …

Correlations of the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays with extragalactic objects as observed by the Telescope Array experiment

T Abu-Zayyad, R Aida, M Allen… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We search for correlations between the positions of extragalactic objects and the arrival
directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with primary energy E⩾ 40 EeV as …

Treasure Maps for Detections of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays

N Globus, A Fedynitch, RD Blandford - The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays is a 60 yr old mystery. We show that with more
events at the highest energies (above 150 EeV) it may be possible to limit the character of …

Filaments of galaxies as a clue to the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays

J Kim, D Ryu, H Kang, S Kim, SC Rey - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are known to come from outside of our Galaxy, but
their origin still remains unknown. The Telescope Array (TA) experiment recently identified a …

Mass composition of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays from distribution of their arrival directions with the Telescope Array

RU Abbasi, Y Abe, T Abu-Zayyad, M Allen, Y Arai… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We use a new method to estimate the injected mass composition of ultrahigh cosmic rays
(UHECRs) at energies higher than 10 EeV. The method is based on comparison of the …

Identifying nearby sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with deep learning

O Kalashev, M Pshirkov, M Zotov - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a method to analyse arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
(UHECRs) using a classifier defined by a deep convolutional neural network trained on a …

[PDF][PDF] Ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray hotspot observed with the Telescope Array surface detectors

K Kawata - PoS ICRC, 2015 - researchgate.net
The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), which reach energy 1020 eV,
remains the mysteries in modern astrophysics. The main obstacles in identifying the origin of …