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Cosmic Ray Isotropy at Energies Above 1018 eV

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

A.G.K. Smith
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide SA 5001
R.W. Clay
Affiliation:
Dept of Physics and Mathematical Physics, University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, Adelaide SA 5001

Abstract

Studies have been made of the extent to which extragalactic cosmic rays observed at the earth would be deviated by the galactic magnetic field. The distribution of these deviations is presented as a function of observed direction for two field models. Also using these two models, possible extragalactic directions are derived for the cosmic rays detected by the SUGAR giant air shower array as a basis of a possible technique for searching for extragalactic cosmic ray sources.

Type
High Energy Astrophysics
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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