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 …

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 …

How isotropic can the UHECR flux be?

A Di Matteo, P Tinyakov - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Modern observatories of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) have collected over 104
events with energies above 10 EeV, whose arrival directions appear to be nearly …

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 …

Isotropy constraints on powerful sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays at 1019 eV

H Takami, K Murase, CD Dermer - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Anisotropy in the arrival direction distribution of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs)
produced by powerful sources is numerically evaluated. We show that nondetection of …

Constraints on UHECR sources and extragalactic magnetic fields from directional anisotropies

T Bister, GR Farrar - The Astrophysical Journal, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A dipole anisotropy in ultra–high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) arrival directions, of
extragalactic origin, is now firmly established at energies E> 8 EeV. Furthermore, the …

Isotropy of Cosmic Rays beyond Favors Their Heavy Mass Composition

RU Abbasi, Y Abe, T Abu-Zayyad, M Allen, Y Arai… - Physical review …, 2024 - APS
We report an estimation of the injected mass composition of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
(UHECRs) at energies higher than 10 EeV. The composition is inferred from an energy …

Anisotropy expectations for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with future high-statistics experiments

BR d'Orfeuil, D Allard, C Lachaud, E Parizot… - Astronomy & …, 2014 - aanda.org
Context. Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have attracted a lot of attention in
astroparticle physics and high-energy astrophysics, due to their challengingly high energies …

Full-sky searches for anisotropies in UHECR arrival directions with the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array

A Di Matteo, T Bister, J Biteau, L Caccianiga… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
The arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays appear to be approximately
isotropically distributed over the whole sky, but the last-generation UHECR detector arrays …

Statistical significance of small-scale anisotropy in arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

H Yoshiguchi, S Nagataki, K Sato - The Astrophysical Journal, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recently, the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment has indicated that there
is no small-scale anisotropy in the arrival distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays …