2022 report from the Auger-TA working group on UHECR arrival directions

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Title: 2022 report from the Auger-TA working group on UHECR arrival directions
Authors: di Matteo, A., Anchordoqui, L., Bister, T., de Almeida, R., Deligny, O., Deval, L., Farrar, G., Giaccari, U., Golup, G., Higuchi, R., Kim, J., Kuznetsov, M., Mariş, I., Rubtsov, G., Tinyakov, P., Urban, F.
Publication Year: 2023
Collection: Astrophysics
Subject Terms: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
More Details: After over 60 years, the powerful engines that accelerate ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) to the formidable energies at which we observe them from Earth remain mysterious. Assuming standard physics, we expect UHECR sources to lie within the local Universe (up to a few hundred~Mpc). The distribution of matter in the local Universe is anisotropic, and we expect this anisotropy to be imprinted on the distribution of UHECR arrival directions. Even though intervening intergalactic and Galactic magnetic fields deflect charged UHECRs and can distort these anisotropies, some amount of information on the distribution of the sources is preserved. In this proceedings contribution, we present the results of the joint Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array searches for (a) the largest-scale anisotropies (the harmonic dipole and quadrupole) and (b) correlations with a sample of nearby starburst galaxies and the 2MRS catalogue tracing stellar mass within~250~Mpc. This analysis updates our previous results with the most recent available data, notably with the addition of 3~years of new Telescope Array data. The main finding is a correlation between the arrival directions of $12.1\%_{-3.1\%}^{+4.5\%}$~of UHECRs detected with $E \geq 38$~EeV by~Auger or with~$E \gtrsim 49$~EeV by~TA and the positions of nearby starburst galaxies on a ${15.1\text{deg}}_{-3.0\text{deg}}^{+4.6\text{deg}}$~angular scale, with a $4.7\sigma$~post-trial significance, up from $4.2\sigma$ obtained in our previous study.
Comment: proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR2022), 3-7 October 2022, L'Aquila, Italy
Document Type: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202328303002
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04502
Accession Number: edsarx.2302.04502
Database: arXiv
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DOI:10.1051/epjconf/202328303002