On the correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects reported by the Pierre Auger Collaboration

JETP Letters

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 461-463

  Gorbunov, D ^a   Tinyakov, P ^a,b   Tkachev, I ^a   Troitsky, S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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EID: 47249121633     PISSN: 00213640     EISSN: 10906487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0021364008090014     Document Type: Article

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