A faraway quasar in the direction of the highest energy Auger event

Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Albuquerque, Ivone F M ^a,b   Chou, Aaron ^a  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Active galactic nuclei; Cosmic ray experiments; Cosmic ray theory; Ultra high energy cosmic rays

Indexed keywords

EID: 78449287466     PISSN: 14757516     EISSN: 14757516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2010/08/016     Document Type: Article

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