An extremely energetic cosmic ray observed by a surface detector array

Telescope Array Collaboration*†, RU Abbasi, MG Allen… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Cosmic rays are energetic charged particles from extraterrestrial sources, with the highest-
energy events thought to come from extragalactic sources. Their arrival is infrequent, so …

The dawn of the particle astronomy era in ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

PM Bauleo, JR Martino - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Cosmic rays are charged particles arriving at the Earth from space. Those at the highest
energies are particularly interesting because the physical processes that could create or …

Observation of a large-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of cosmic rays above 8 × 1018 eV

Pierre Auger Collaboration, A Aab, P Abreu, M Aglietta… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Cosmic rays are atomic nuclei arriving from outer space that reach the highest energies
observed in nature. Clues to their origin come from studying the distribution of their arrival …

Arrival directions of the most energetic cosmic rays

T Stanev, PL Biermann, J Lloyd–Evans, JP Rachen… - Physical Review Letters, 1995 - APS
In this Letter we examine the arrival directions of the most energetic cosmic rays (E> 2× 10
19 eV) detected by several air shower experiments. We find that data taken by different air …

Ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays: physics and astrophysics at extreme energies

G Sigl - Science, 2001 - science.org
The origin of cosmic rays is one of the major unresolved questions in astrophysics. In
particular, the highest energy cosmic rays observed have macroscopic energies up to …

Observations and implications of the ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays

M Nagano, AA Watson - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2000 - APS
The authors define “ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays”(UHECRs) as those cosmic rays with
energies above 10 18 eV. It had been anticipated that there would be a cutoff in the energy …

Energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays observed with the Telescope Array using a hybrid technique

T Abu-Zayyad, R Aida, M Allen, R Anderson… - Astroparticle …, 2015 - Elsevier
We measure the spectrum of cosmic rays with energies greater than 10 18.2 eV with the
fluorescence detectors (FDs) and the surface detectors (SDs) of the Telescope Array …

Centaurus A as a source of extragalactic cosmic rays with arrival energies well beyond the GZK cutoff

GE Romero, JA Combi, SEP Bergliaffa… - Astroparticle …, 1996 - Elsevier
The ultra—high energy cosmic rays recently detected by several air shower experiments
could have an extragalactic origin. In this case, the nearest active galaxy Centaurus A might …

Telescope array project for extremely high energy cosmic rays

M Fukushima - Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, 2003 - academic.oup.com
The existence of extremely high energy cosmic rays (EHECRs) with energies exceeding
1020 eV has been reported by the AGASA experiment. These cosmic rays may be produced …

Centaurus A as the source of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays?

C Isola, M Lemoine, G Sigl - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
We present numerical simulations for energy spectra and angular distributions of nucleons
above 10 19 eV injected by the radio-galaxy Centaurus A at a distance 3.4 Mpc and …