Correlating Fermi gamma-ray sources with ultra-high-energy cosmic rays
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2010-06-01
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N. Mirabal, I. Oya, Correlating Fermi gamma-ray sources with ultra-high-energy cosmic rays, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, Volume 405, Issue 1, June 2010, Pages L99–L101, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2010.00868.x
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This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) is one of the enduring mysteries of high-energy astrophysics. To investigate this, we cross-correlate the recently released Fermi Large Area Telescope First Source Catalog (1FGL) with the public sample of UHECRs made available by the Pierre Auger collaboration. Of the 27 UHECRs in the sample, we find 12 events that arrived within 3.1° of Fermi sources. However, we find similar or larger number of matches in 63 out of 100 artificial UHECR samples constructed using positions randomly drawn from the BATSE 4B catalogue of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) collected from 1991 until 1996. Based on our analysis, we find no evidence that UHECRs are associated with Fermi sources. We conclude with some remarks about the astrophysical origin of cosmic rays.