Full-sky search for ultrahigh energy cosmic ray anisotropies

Physical Review D

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Anchordoqui, Luis ^a   Hojvat, Carlos ^b   McCauley, Thomas ^a   Paul, Thomas ^a   Reucroft, Stephen ^a   Swain, John ^a   Widom, Allan ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POWER SPECTRUM;

EID: 0345306279     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.68.083004     Document Type: Article

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