All-Sky Measurement of the Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays at 10 TeV and
Mapping of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field
Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 871 (2019) 96-96
Authors:
HAWC Collaboration, AU Abeysekara, R Alfaro, C Alvarez, JD Álvarez, R Arceo, JC Arteaga-Velázquez, D Avila Rojas, E Belmont-Moreno, SY BenZvi, C Brisbois, T Capistrán, A Carramiñana, S Casanova, U Cotti, J Cotzomi, JC Díaz-Vélez, C De León, E De la Fuente, S Dichiara, MA DuVernois, C Espinoza, DW Fiorino, H Fleischhack, N Fraija, A Galván-Gámez, JA García-González, MM González, JA Goodman, Z Hampel-Arias, JP Harding, S Hernandez, B Hona, F Hueyotl-Zahuantitla, A Iriarte, A Jardin-Blicq, V Joshi, A Lara, H León Vargas, G Luis-Raya, K Malone, SS Marinelli, J Martínez-Castro, O Martinez, JA Matthews, P Miranda-Romagnoli, E Moreno, M Mostafá, L Nellen, M Newbold, MU Nisa, R Noriega-Papaqui, EG Pérez-Pérez, J Pretz, Z Ren, CD Rho, C Rivière, D Rosa-González, M Rosenberg, H Salazar, F Salesa Greus, A Sandoval, M Schneider, H Schoorlemmer, G Sinnis, AJ Smith, P Surajbali, I Taboada, K Tollefson, I Torres, L Villaseño, T Weisgarber, J Wood, A Zepeda, H Zhou, IceCube Collaboration, MG Aartsen, M Ackermann, J Adams, JA Aguilar, M Ahlers, M Ahrens, D Altmann, K Andeen, T Anderson, I Ansseau, G Anton, C Argüelles, J Auffenberg, S Axani, P Backes, H Bagherpour, X Bai, A Barbano, JP Barron, SW Barwick, V Baum, R Bay, JJ Beatty, K-H Becker, J Becker Tjus, S BenZvi, D Berley, E Bernardini, DZ Besson, G Binder, D Bindig, E Blaufuss, S Blot, C Bohm, M Börner, F Bos, S Böser, O Botner, E Bourbeau, J Bourbeau, F Bradascio, J Braun, H-P Bretz, S Bron, J Brostean-Kaiser, A Burgman, RS Busse, T Carver, C Chen, E Cheung, D Chirkin, K Clark, L Classen, GH Collin, JM Conrad, P Coppin, P Correa, DF Cowen, R Cross, P Dave, M Day, JPAM de André, C De Clercq, JJ DeLaunay, H Dembinski, K Deoskar, S De Ridder, P Desiati, KD de Vries, G de Wasseige, M de With, T DeYoung, JC Díaz-Vélez, H Dujmovic, M Dunkman, E Dvorak, B Eberhardt, T Ehrhardt, B Eichmann, P Eller, PA Evenson, S Fahey, AR Fazely, J Felde, K Filimonov, C Finley, A Franckowiak, E Friedman, A Fritz, TK Gaisser, J Gallagher, E Ganster, S Garrappa, L Gerhardt, K Ghorbani, W Giang, T Glauch, T Glüsenkamp, A Goldschmidt, JG Gonzalez, D Grant, Z Griffith, C Haack, A Hallgren, L Halve, F Halzen, K Hanson, D Hebecker, D Heereman, K Helbing, R Hellauer, S Hickford, J Hignight, GC Hill, KD Hoffman, R Hoffmann, T Hoinka, B Hokanson-Fasig, K Hoshina, F Huang, M Huber, K Hultqvist, M Hünnefeld, R Hussain, S In, N Iovine, A Ishihara, E Jacobi, GS Japaridze, M Jeong, K Jero, BJP Jones, P Kalaczynski, W Kang, A Kappes, D Kappesser, T Karg, A Karle, U Katz, M Kauer, A Keivani, JL Kelley, A Kheirandish, J Kim, T Kintscher, J Kiryluk, T Kittler, SR Klein, R Koirala, H Kolanoski, L Köpke, C Kopper, S Kopper, DJ Koskinen, M Kowalski, K Krings, M Kroll, G Krückl, S Kunwar, N Kurahashi, A Kyriacou, M Labare, JL Lanfranchi, MJ Larson, F Lauber, K Leonard, M Leuermann, QR Liu, E Lohfink, CJ Lozano Mariscal, L Lu, J Lünemann, W Luszczak, J Madsen, G Maggi, KBM Mahn, Y Makino, S Mancina, IC Mariş, R Maruyama, K Mase, R Maunu, K Meagher, M Medici, A Medina, M Meier, T Menne, G Merino, T Meures, S Miarecki, J Micallef, G Momenté, T Montaruli, RW Moore, M Moulai, R Nagai, R Nahnhauer, P Nakarmi, U Naumann, G Neer, H Niederhausen, SC Nowicki, DR Nygren, A Obertacke Pollmann, A Olivas, A O'Murchadha, E O'Sullivan, T Palczewski, H Pandya, DV Pankova, P Peiffer, C Pérez de los Heros, D Pieloth, E Pinat, A Pizzuto, M Plum, PB Price, GT Przybylski, C Raab, A Raissi, M Rameez, L Rauch, K Rawlins, IC Rea, R Reimann, B Relethford, G Renzi, E Resconi, W Rhode, M Richman, S Robertson, M Rongen, C Rott, T Ruhe, D Ryckbosch, D Rysewyk, I Safa, SE Sanchez Herrera, A Sandrock, J Sandroos, M Santander, S Sarkar, S Sarkar, K Satalecka, M Schaufel, P Schlunder, T Schmidt, A Schneider, J Schneider, S Schöneberg, L Schumacher, S Sclafani, D Seckel, S Seunarine, J Soedingrekso, D Soldin, M Song, GM Spiczak, C Spiering, J Stachurska, M Stamatikos, T Stanev, A Stasik, R Stein, J Stettner, A Steuer, T Stezelberger, RG Stokstad, A Stößl, NL Strotjohann, T Stuttard, GW Sullivan, M Sutherland, I Taboada, F Tenholt, S Ter-Antonyan, A Terliuk, S Tilav, MN Tobin, C Tönnis, S Toscano, D Tosi, M Tselengidou, CF Tung, A Turcati, R Turcotte, CF Turley, B Ty, E Unger, MA Unland Elorrieta, M Usner, J Vandenbroucke, W Van Driessche, D van Eijk, N van Eijndhoven, S Vanheule, J van Santen, M Vraeghe, C Walck, A Wallace, M Wallraff, N Wandkowsky, FD Wandler, TB Watson, C Weaver, MJ Weiss, J Weldert, C Wendt, J Werthebach, S Westerhoff, BJ Whelan, N Whitehorn, K Wiebe, CH Wiebusch, L Wille, DR Williams, L Wills, M Wolf, J Wood, TR Wood, E Woolsey, K Woschnagg, G Wrede, DL Xu, XW Xu, Y Xu, JP Yanez, G Yodh, S Yoshida, T Yuan
Abstract:
We present the first full-sky analysis of the cosmic ray arrival direction
distribution with data collected by the HAWC and IceCube observatories in the Northern and Southern hemispheres at the same median primary particle energy of 10 TeV. The combined sky map and angular power spectrum largely eliminate biases that result from partial sky coverage and holds a key to probe into the propagation properties of TeV cosmic rays through our local interstellar medium and the interaction between the interstellar and heliospheric magnetic fields.
From the map we determine the horizontal dipole components of the anisotropy
$\delta_{0h} = 9.16 \times 10^{-4}$ and $\delta_{6h} = 7.25 \times
10^{-4}~(\pm0.04 \times 10^{-4})$. In addition, we infer the direction
($229.2\pm 3.5^\circ$ RA , $11.4\pm 3.0^\circ$ Dec.) of the interstellar
magnetic field from the boundary between large scale excess and deficit regions
from which we estimate the missing corresponding vertical dipole component of
the large scale anisotropy to be $\delta_N \sim -3.97 ^{+1.0}_{-2.0} \times
10^{-4}$.
