ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OBSERVED CLUSTERING OF ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC-RAYS

Authors
TANCO GAM
Citation
Gam. Tanco, ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE OBSERVED CLUSTERING OF ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC-RAYS, The Astrophysical journal, 495(2), 1998, pp. 71-74
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
The Astrophysical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004637X
Volume
495
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Part
2
Pages
71 - 74
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(1998)495:2<71:OTSOTO>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Three pairs of possibly correlated ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray events were reported by Hayashida et al. Three different numerical models ar e combined to study the propagation of the corresponding particles thr ough both the intergalactic and Galactic magnetic fields. The spatial dependences of fields and galaxies are accounted for. The results sugg est that the pairs are chance clusterings.