Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects

Science

Volumn 318, Issue 5852, 2007, Pages 938-943

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; COSMIC RAY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELECTRON; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY YIELD; MAGNETIC FIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 36048990557     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151124     Document Type: Article

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24. We are grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Gobierno De La Provincia de Mendoza, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Municipalidad de Malargüe, Fundación Antorchas, Argentina; the Australian Research Council; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos do Ministerio da Ciencia e Tecnologia (FINEP/MCT), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Brazil; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Conseil Régional Ile-de-France, Département Physique Nucléaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), Département Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France; Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-Württemberg, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein Westfalen, Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), Mexico; Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal; Ministry for Higher Education, Science, and Technology, Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia; Comunidad de Madrid, Consejería de Educacíon de la Comunidad de Castilla La Mancha, FEDER funds, Ministerio de Educacíon y Ciencia, Xunta de Galicia, Spain; Science and TechnologyFacilities Council, UK; Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, The Grainger Foundation, USA; América Latina Formación Académica-European Community/High Energy Physics Latin-American European Network, and UNESCO.