INDICATIONS OF INTERMEDIATE-SCALE ANISOTROPY OF COSMIC RAYS WITH ENERGY GREATER THAN 57 EeV IN THE NORTHERN SKY MEASURED WITH THE SURFACE DETECTOR OF THE TELESCOPE ARRAY EXPERIMENT

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We have searched for intermediate-scale anisotropy in the arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays with energies above 57 EeV in the northern sky using data collected over a 5 yr period by the surface detector of the Telescope Array experiment. We report on a cluster of events that we call the hotspot, found by oversampling using 20 degrees radius circles. The hotspot has a Li-Ma statistical significance of 5.1 sigma, and is centered at R. A. = 146 degrees 7, decl. = 43 degrees 2. The position of the hotspot is about 19 degrees off of the supergalactic plane. The probability of a cluster of events of 5.1 sigma significance, appearing by chance in an isotropic cosmic-ray sky, is estimated to be 3.7 x 10(-4) (3.4 sigma).

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acceleration of particlescosmic rayslarge-scale structure of universesurveysGALACTIC MAGNETIC-FIELDARRIVAL DIRECTIONSPROPAGATIONSPECTRUM
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INDICATIONS OF INTERMEDIATE-SCALE ANISOTROPY OF COSMIC RAYS WITH ENERGY GREATER THAN 57 EeV IN THE NORTHERN SKY MEASURED WITH THE SURFACE DETECTOR OF THE TELESCOPE ARRAY EXPERIMENT
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Abbasi, RUAbe, MAbu-Zayyad, TAllen, MAnderson, RAzuma, RBarcikowski, EBelz, JWBergman, DRBlake, SACady, RChae, MJCheon, BGChiba, JChikawa, MCho, WRFujii, TFukushima, MGoto, THanlon, WHayashi, YHayashida, NHibino, KHonda, KIkeda, DInoue, NIshii, TIshimori, RIto, HIvanov, DJui, CCHKadota, KKakimoto, FKalashev, OKasahara, KKawai, HKawakami, SKawana, SKawata, KKido, EKim, HBKim, JHKim, JHKitamura, SKitamura, YKuzmin, VKwon, YJLan, JLim, SILundquist, JPMachida, KMartens, KMatsuda, TMatsuyama, TMatthews, JNMinamino, MMukai, KMyers, INagasawa, KNagataki, SNakamura, TNonaka, TNozato, AOgio, SOgura, JOhnishi, MOhoka, HOki, KOkuda, TOno, MOshima, AOzawa, SPark, IHPshirkov, MSRodriguez, DCRubtsov, GRyu, DSagawa, HSakurai, NSampson, ALScott, LMShah, PDShibata, FShibata, TShimodaira, HShin, BKSmith, JDSokolsky, PSpringer, RWStokes, BTStratton, SRStroman, TASuzawa, TTakamura, MTakeda, MTakeishi, RTaketa, ATakita, MTameda, YTanaka, HTanaka, KTanaka, MThomas, SBThomson, GBTinyakov, PTkachev, ITokuno, HTomida, TTroitsky, STsunesada, YTsutsumi, KUchihori, YUdo, SUrban, FVasiloff, GWong, TYamane, RYamaoka, HYamazaki, KYang, JYashiro, KYoneda, YYoshida, SYoshii, HZollinger, RZundel, Z
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10.1088/2041-8205/790/2/L21
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2014-08
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Astrophysical Journal Letters
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