Title
Observation of anisotropy in the galactic cosmic-ray arrival directions at 400 TeV with IceCube
Date Issued
10 February 2012
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Abbasi R.
Abdou Y.
Abu-Zayyad T.
Ackermann M.
Adams J.
Aguilar J.A.
Ahlers M.
Allen M.M.
Altmann D.
Andeen K.
Auffenberg J.
Bai X.
Baker M.
Barwick S.W.
Bay R.
Beattie K.
Beatty J.J.
Bechet S.
Becker J.K.
Becker K.H.
Benabderrahmane M.L.
BenZvi S.
Berdermann J.
Berghaus P.
Berley D.
Bernardini E.
Bertrand D.
Besson D.Z.
Bindig D.
Bissok M.
Blaufuss E.
Blumenthal J.
Boersma D.J.
Bohm C.
Bose D.
Böser S.
Botner O.
Brown A.M.
Buitink S.
Caballero-Mora K.S.
Carson M.
Chirkin D.
Christy B.
Clevermann F.
Cohen S.
Colnard C.
Cowen D.F.
Cruz Silva A.H.
D'Agostino M.V.
Danninger M.
Daughhetee J.
Davis J.C.
De Clercq C.
Degner T.
Demirörs L.
Descamps F.
Desiati P.
De Vries-Uiterweerd G.
DeYoung T.
Díaz-Vélez J.C.
Dierckxsens M.
Dreyer J.
Dumm J.P.
Dunkman M.
Eisch J.
Ellsworth R.W.
Engdegård O.
Euler S.
Evenson P.A.
Fadiran O.
Fazely A.R.
Fedynitch A.
Feintzeig J.
Feusels T.
Filimonov K.
Finley C.
Fischer-Wasels T.
Fox B.D.
Franckowiak A.
Franke R.
Gaisser T.K.
Gallagher J.
Gerhardt L.
Gladstone L.
Glüsenkamp T.
Goldschmidt A.
Goodman J.A.
Góra D.
Grant D.
Griesel T.
Groß A.
Grullon S.
Gurtner M.
Ha C.
Haj Ismail A.
Hallgren A.
Halzen F.
Han K.
Hanson K.
Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron
Publisher(s)
Institute of Physics Publishing
Abstract
In this paper we report the first observation in the Southern hemisphere of an energy dependence in the Galactic cosmic-ray anisotropy up to a few hundred TeV. This measurement was performed using cosmic-ray-induced muons recorded by the partially deployed IceCube observatory between 2009 May and 2010 May. The data include a total of 33 × 109 muon events with a median angular resolution of ∼3°. A sky map of the relative intensity in arrival direction over the Southern celestial sky is presented for cosmic-ray median energies of 20 and 400 TeV. The same large-scale anisotropy observed at median energies around 20 TeV is not present at 400 TeV. Instead, the high-energy sky map shows a different anisotropy structure including a deficit with a post-trial significance of .6.3σ. This anisotropy reveals a new feature of the Galactic cosmic-ray distribution, which must be incorporated into theories of the origin and propagation of cosmic rays.
Volume
746
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Astronomía
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84863073281
Source
Astrophysical Journal
ISSN of the container
0004637X
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation - 0969661
Science and Technology Facilities Council - ST/J000507/1
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - 10J40081
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung - 133630
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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