A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Simultaneous measurements of air showers with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for EeV photon point sources. Several Galactic and extragalactic candidate objects are grouped in classes to reduce the statistical penalty of many trials fro...

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spelling todo:paper_20418205_v837_n2_p_Multitudinario2023-10-03T16:38:05Z A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory Multitudinario:399 astroparticle physics cosmic rays methods: data analysis Simultaneous measurements of air showers with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for EeV photon point sources. Several Galactic and extragalactic candidate objects are grouped in classes to reduce the statistical penalty of many trials from that of a blind search and are analyzed for a significant excess above the background expectation. The presented search does not find any evidence for photon emission at candidate sources, and combined p-values for every class are reported. Particle and energy flux upper limits are given for selected candidate sources. These limits significantly constrain predictions of EeV proton emission models from non-transient Galactic and nearby extragalactic sources, as illustrated for the particular case of the Galactic center region. © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20418205_v837_n2_p_Multitudinario
institution Universidad de Buenos Aires
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topic astroparticle physics
cosmic rays
methods: data analysis
spellingShingle astroparticle physics
cosmic rays
methods: data analysis
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A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
topic_facet astroparticle physics
cosmic rays
methods: data analysis
description Simultaneous measurements of air showers with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for EeV photon point sources. Several Galactic and extragalactic candidate objects are grouped in classes to reduce the statistical penalty of many trials from that of a blind search and are analyzed for a significant excess above the background expectation. The presented search does not find any evidence for photon emission at candidate sources, and combined p-values for every class are reported. Particle and energy flux upper limits are given for selected candidate sources. These limits significantly constrain predictions of EeV proton emission models from non-transient Galactic and nearby extragalactic sources, as illustrated for the particular case of the Galactic center region. © 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
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title A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_short A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_full A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_fullStr A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_full_unstemmed A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory
title_sort targeted search for point sources of eev photons with the pierre auger observatory
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