Search for Point Sources of Ultra--High-Energy Cosmic Rays Above 10^19 eV Using a Maximum Likelihood Ratio Test

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25 July 2005

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0507574

Abstract

We present the results of a search for cosmic ray point sources at energies above 10^19 eV in the HiRes stereo data set. The analysis is based on a maximum likelihood ratio test using the probability density function for each event rather than requiring an a priori choice of a fixed angular bin size. The search is extended to the combined data set of HiRes data above 10^19 eV and AGASA data above 4.0 10^19 eV. In both cases, no statistically significant clustering of events consistent with a point source is found.

Keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION
LIKELIHOOD RATIO
ENERGY COSMIC
POINT SOURCES
RATIO TEST
SEARCH
HIRES
BIN

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