Comment on “Correlation between Compact Radio Quasars and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays”
- 20 September 1999
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (12) , 2471
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.2471
Abstract
In a recent paper, Farrar and Biermann argue that there is a strong correlation between the direction of the five highest-energy cosmic-ray events and compact, radio-loud quasars. This Comment shows that this analysis contains several inconsistencies and errors so that the significance of any such correlation is certainly greatly overestimated and perhaps nonexistent.Keywords
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