1997/11/06 by Guenter Sigl, Günter Sigl, Martin Lemoine · 21 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #COSMIC cancer database #Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) #Coherence length #Cosmic ray #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Energy (signal processing) #Magnetic field #Monte Carlo method #Neutrino Physics Research #Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0927-6505(98)00006-1
published in Astroparticle Physics 9(1), 65-78 (Elsevier BV) · 23 latex pages, 11 postscript figures included, uses (and includes) elsart.sty and epsf.sty. Submitted to Astroparticle Physics
arxiv created 1997/11/06 · openalex publication_date 1998/06/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a detailed Monte Carlo study coupled to a likelihood analysis of the potential of next generation ultra-high energy cosmic ray experiments to reconstruct properties of the sources and the extra-galactic magnetic field. Such characteristics are encoded in the distributions of arrival time, direction, and energy of clusters of charged cosmic rays above a few 10**(19) eV. The parameters we consider for reconstruction are the emission timescale, total fluence (or power), injection spectrum, and distance of the source, as well as the r.m.s. field strength, power spectrum, and coherence length of the magnetic field. We discuss five generic situations which can be identified relatively easily and allow a reasonable reconstruction of at least part of these parameters. Our numerical code is set up such that it can easily be applied to the data from future experiments.