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most citedCorrelation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects

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astro-ph.HE2015★ 24 cited

Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array: Joint Contributions to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2015)

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +573

Joint contributions of the Pierre Auger Collaboration and the Telescope Array Collaboration to the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July - 6 August 2015, The Hague, The…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 61 cited

Large scale distribution of ultra high energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory with zenith angles up to 80

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the results of an analysis of the large angular scale distribution of the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above 4 EeV detected at the Pierre Auger Observat…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 210 cited

Searches for Anisotropies in the Arrival Directions of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We analyze the distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory in 10 years of operation. The data set, about three time…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 17 cited

Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-ener…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 390 cited

Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Measurements at Energies above 10^17.8 eV

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We report a study of the distributions of the depth of maximum, Xmax, of extensive air-shower profiles with energies above 10^17.8 eV as observed with the fluorescence telescopes o…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 259 cited

Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Mean number in highly inclined events

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the first hybrid measurement of the average muon number in air showers at ultra-high energies, initiated by cosmic rays with zenith angles between and $80^\ci…

hep-ex2014★ 117 cited

Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Measurement of atmospheric production depth

Pierre Auger Collaboration

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory provides information about the longitudinal development of the muonic component of extensive air showers. Using the timin…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 132 cited

Probing the radio emission from air showers with polarization measurements

Pierre Auger Collaboration

The emission of radio waves from air showers has been attributed to the so-called geomagnetic emission process. At frequencies around 50 MHz this process leads to coherent radiatio…

astro-ph.IM2013★ 12 cited

Identifying Clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using Infrared Satellite Data

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We describe a new method of identifying night-time clouds over the Pierre Auger Observatory using infrared data from the Imager instruments on the GOES-12 and GOES-13 satellites. W…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 102 cited

Constraints on the origin of cosmic rays above eV from large scale anisotropy searches in data of the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is reported. For…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 55 cited

Large scale distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

A thorough search for large scale anisotropies in the distribution of arrival directions of cosmic rays detected above eV at the Pierre Auger Observatory is presented. Th…

hep-ex2012★ 269 cited

Measurement of the proton-air cross-section at TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We report a measurement of the proton-air cross-section for particle production at the center-of-mass energy per nucleon of 57 TeV. This is derived from the distribution of the dep…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 20 cited

The Lateral Trigger Probability function for the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Showers detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +495

In this paper we introduce the concept of Lateral Trigger Probability (LTP) function, i.e., the probability for an extensive air shower (EAS) to trigger an individual detector of a…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 79 cited

The exposure of the hybrid detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The Pierre Auger Observatory is a detector for ultra-high energy cosmic rays. It consists of a surface array to measure secondary particles at ground level and a fluorescence detec…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 476 cited

Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 10^18 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We report a measurement of the flux of cosmic rays with unprecedented precision and statistics using the Pierre Auger Observatory. Based on fluorescence observations in coincidence…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 548 cited

Measurement of the Depth of Maximum of Extensive Air Showers above 10^18 eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We describe the measurement of the depth of maximum, Xmax, of the longitudinal development of air showers induced by cosmic rays. Almost four thousand events above 10^18 eV observe…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 58 cited

Atmospheric effects on extensive air showers observed with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Atmospheric parameters, such as pressure (P), temperature (T) and density, affect the development of extensive air showers initiated by energetic cosmic rays. We have studied the i…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 133 cited

Limit on the diffuse flux of ultra-high energy tau neutrinos with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Data collected at the Pierre Auger Observatory are used to establish an upper limit on the diffuse flux of tau neutrinos in the cosmic radiation. Earth-skimming may interact…

astro-ph2008★ 635 cited

Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10^19eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5x10^18eV, derived from 20,000 events recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory, is described. The spectral index gamma of the flux, J ~ E…

astro-ph2008★ 212 cited

Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon flux above 10^19 eV using the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

A method is developed to search for air showers initiated by photons using data recorded by the surface detector of the Auger Observatory. The approach is based on observables sens…

astro-ph2007★ 172 cited

Upper limit on the diffuse flux of UHE tau neutrinos from the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The surface detector array of the Pierre Auger Observatory is sensitive to Earth-skimming tau-neutrinos that interact in the Earth's crust. Tau leptons from charged-cur…

astro-ph2007★ 788 cited

Correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Using data collected at the Pierre Auger Observatory during the past 3.7 years, we demonstrated a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above ~ 6x10…

astro-ph2006★ 66 cited

Anisotropy studies around the galactic centre at EeV energies with the Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Data from the Pierre Auger Observatory are analyzed to search for anisotropies near the direction of the Galactic Centre at EeV energies. The exposure of the surface array in this…

astro-ph2006★ 121 cited

An upper limit to the photon fraction in cosmic rays above 10^19 eV from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

An upper limit of 16% (at 95% c.l.) is derived for the photon fraction in cosmic rays with energies greater than 10^19 eV, based on observations of the depth of shower maximum perf…