Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2011-09-05
R. Abbasi et al. 2012 ApJ 746 33
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
10.1088/0004-637X/746/1/33
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 May 2009 and May 2010. The data include a total of 33$\times 10^{9}$ muon events with a median angular resolution of $\sim3^{\circ}$ degrees. 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 skymap shows a different anisotropy structure including a deficit with a post-trial significance of -6.3$\sigma$. 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.
Abbasi Rasha
Abdou Yasser
Abu-Zayyad Tareq
Ackermann Marcelo
Adams Jeffrey
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