Southern Hemisphere Observations of a 1018eV Cosmic Ray Source Near the Direction of the Galactic Centre

J.A. Bellido, R.W. Clay, B.R. Dawson and M. Johnston-Hollitt


(1) Department of Physics, The University of Adelaide, Australia 5005

Paper: Astroparticle Physics, in press

EPrint Server: astro-ph/0009039

Abstract:

We report on an analysis of data from the southern hemisphere SUGAR cosmic ray detector. We confirm the existence of an excess of 1018eV cosmic rays from a direction close to the Galactic Centre, first reported by the AGASA group. We find that the signal is consistent with that from a point source, and we find no evidence for an excess of cosmic rays coming from the direction of the Galactic Centre itself.

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