INVESTIGADORES
MOLLERACH Maria Silvia
artículos
Título:
Searching for signals of magnetic lensing in ultra-high energy cosmic rays
Autor/es:
GOLUP, GERALDINA; HARARI, DIEGO; MOLLERACH, SILVIA; ROULET, ESTEBAN
Revista:
JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
Editorial:
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2011 p. 1 - 12
ISSN:
1475-7516
Resumen:
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays are mostly charged particles and they are
therefore deflected by magnetic fields on their path from their sources
to Earth. An interesting phenomenon arising from these deflections is
the appearance of multiple images of a source, i.e. cosmic rays with the
same energy coming from the same source that can arrive to the Earth
from different directions. In this work we present a technique to
identify secondary images, produced by the regular component of the
galactic magnetic field, benefiting from the fact that near caustics the
flux is significantly magnified.