RT Journal Article
T1 A search for point sources of EeV photons
A1 Arqueros Martínez, Fernando
A1 Blanco Ramos, Francisco
A1 García Pinto, Diego
A1 Minaya Flores, Ignacio Andrés
A1 Ortiz Ramis, Monserrat
A1 Rosado Vélez, Jaime
A1 Vázquez Peñas, José Ramón
AB Measurements of air showers made using the hybrid technique developed with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for point sources of EeV photons anywhere in the exposed sky. A multivariate analysis reduces the background of hadronic cosmic rays. The search is sensitive to a declination band from -85 degrees to +20 degrees, in an energy range from 10(17.3) eV to 10(18.5) eV. No photon point source has been detected. An upper limit on the photon flux has been derived for every direction. The mean value of the energy flux limit that results from this, assuming a photon spectral index of -2, is 0.06 eV cm(-2) s(-1), and no celestial direction exceeds 0.25 eV cm(-2) s(-1). These upper limits constrain scenarios in which EeV cosmic ray protons are emitted by non-transient sources in the Galaxy.
PB IOP Publishing LTD
SN 0004-637X
YR 2014
FD 2014-07-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34792
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/34792
LA eng
NO ©2014. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.Autoría conjunta: Pierre Auger Collaboration. Artículo firmado por mas de 400 autoresWe are very grateful to the following agencies and organizations for financial support: Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, Fundacion Antorchas, Gobierno De La Provincia de Mendoza, Municipalidad de Malargue, NDM Holdings and Valle Las Lenas, in gratitude for their continuing cooperation over land access, Argentina; the Australian Research Council; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq), Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (FINEP), Fundacao de Amparoa Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) grant Nos. 2010/07359-6, 1999/05404-3, Ministerio de Ciencia e Tecnologia (MCT), Brazil; MSMT-CR LG13007, 7AMB14AR005, CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0058 and the Czech Science Foundation grant 1417501S, Czech Republic; Centre de Calcul IN2P3/CNRS, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique(CNRS), Conseil Regional Ile-de-France, Departement Physique Nucleaire et Corpusculaire (PNC-IN2P3/CNRS), Departement Sciences de l'Univers (SDU-INSU/CNRS), France; Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg, Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein Westfalen, Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung undKunst, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universit` a e della Ricerca (MIUR), Gran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (CFA), CETEMPS Center of Excellence, Italy; Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT), Mexico; Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO), Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM), Netherlands; National Centre for Research and Development, grant Nos. ERA-NET-ASPERA/01/11 and ERA-NET-ASPERA/02/11, National Science Centre, grant Nos. 2013/08/M/ST9/00322 and 2013/08/M/ST9/00728, Poland; Portuguese national funds and FEDER funds within COMPETE - Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade through Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal; Romanian Authority for Scientific Research ANCS, CNDI-UEFISCDI partnership projects nr.20/2012 and nr.194/2012, project nr.1/ASPERA2/2012 ERA-NET, PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0145-17, and PN-II-RU-PD-2011-3-0062, the Minister of National Education, Programme for research-Space Technology and Advanced Research-STAR, project number 83/2013, Romania; Slovenian Research Agency, Slovenia; Comunidad de Madrid, FEDER funds, Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Xunta de Galicia, Spain; The Leverhulme Foundation, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK; Department of Energy, Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359, DE-FR02-04ER41300, and DE-FG02-99ER41107, National Science Foundation, grant No. 0450696, The Grainger Foundation, USA; NAFOSTED, Vietnam; Marie Curie-IRSES/EPLANET, European Particle Physics Latin American Network, European Union 7th Framework Program, grant No. PIRSES-2009-GA-246806; and UNESCO.
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NO Finanzministerium Baden-Wurttemberg
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NO Ministerium fur Wissenschaft und Forschung, Nordrhein Westfalen
NO Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung undKunst, Baden-Wurttemberg
NO Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
NO Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universit` a e della Ricerca (MIUR)
NO Gran Sasso Center for Astroparticle Physics (CFA)
NO CETEMPS Center of Excellence
NO Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap,  Netherlands
NO Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM),  Netherlands
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NO National Science Centre,  Poland
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