Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1995-08-08
Astrophys.J. 452 (1995) L1-L4
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
uuencoded gz-compressed postscript file, including 2 figures; To appear in the October 10 (1995) issue of the Ap. J. Letters
Scientific paper
10.1086/309715
The cosmic ray spectrum at $10^{19}{\rm eV}-10^{20}{\rm eV}$, reported by the Fly's Eye and the AGASA experiments, is shown to be consistent with a cosmological distribution of sources of protons, with a power law generation spectrum ${\rm d}\ln N/{\rm d}\ln E=-2.3\pm0.5$ and energy production rate of $4.5\pm1.5\times10^{44}{\rm erg}\ {\rm Mpc}^{-3}\ {\rm yr}^{-1}$. The two events measured above $10^{20}{\rm eV}$ are not inconsistent with this model. Verifying the existence of a ``black-body cutoff'', currently observed with low significance, would require $\sim30$ observation-years with existing experiments, but only $\sim1$ year with the proposed $\sim5000\ {\rm km}^2$ detectors. For a cosmological source distribution, no anisotropy is expected in the angular distribution of events with energies up to $\sim5\times10^{19}{\rm eV}$.
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