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最高能量宇宙射线与邻近河外天体的相关

Correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

摘要:

利用皮埃尔·俄歇天文台在过去3.7年中收集的数据,我们证明了能量高于~ 6 × 10 ^{19}电子伏特的宇宙射线的到达方向与活动星系核(AGN)位置之间的相关性。我们拒绝了这些宇宙射线的各向同性分布的假设,至少有99%的置信水平,从规定的先验测试。我们观察到的相关性是兼容的假设,即最高能量的粒子来自附近的河外源,其流量并没有大幅减少与宇宙背景辐射的相互作用。活动星系核或具有类似空间分布的天体是可能的来源。

英文摘要:

Using data collected at the Pierre Auger Observatory during the past 3.7 years, we demonstrated a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above ~ 6x10^{19} electron volts and the positions of active galactic nuclei (AGN) lying within ~ 75 megaparsecs. We rejected the hypothesis of an isotropic distribution of these cosmic rays with at least a 99% confidence level from a prescribed a priori test. The correlation we observed is compatible with the hypothesis that the highest energy particles originate from nearby extragalactic sources whose flux has not been substantially reduced by interaction with the cosmic background radiation. AGN or objects having a similar spatial distribution are possible sources.

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