The effect of the geomagnetic field on cosmic ray energy estimates and large scale anisotropy searches on data from the Pierre Auger Observatory (CROSBI ID 186148)
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Podaci o odgovornosti
Abreu, P. ; ... ; Antičić, Tome ; ... ; Kadija, Krešo ; ... ; Mićanović, Saša ; ... ; Šuša, Tatjana ; ... ; Ziolkowski, M.
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The effect of the geomagnetic field on cosmic ray energy estimates and large scale anisotropy searches on data from the Pierre Auger Observatory
We present a comprehensive study of the influence of the geomagnetic field on the energy estimation of extensive air showers with a zenith angle smaller than 60°, detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory. The geomagnetic field induces an azimuthal modulation of the estimated energy of cosmic rays up to the ~ 2% level at large zenith angles. We present a method to account for this modulation of the reconstructed energy. We analyse the effect of the modulation on large scale anisotropy searches in the arrival direction distributions of cosmic rays. At a given energy, the geomagnetic effect is shown to induce a pseudo-dipolar pattern at the percent level in the declination distribution that needs to be accounted for.
cosmic rays detectors; cosmic ray experiments; ultra high energy cosmic rays
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Podaci o izdanju
11
2011.
022-1-022-20
objavljeno
1475-7516
10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/022