http://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04155
Simultaneous measurements of air showers with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for EeV photon point sources. Several Galactic and extragalactic candidate objects are grouped in classes to avoid the statistical penalty for making many trials and analyzed for a significant excess above the background expectation. The presented search does not find any evidence for photon emission at candidate sources, and combined $p$-values for every class are reported. Particle and energy flux upper limits are given for selected candidate sources. These limits significantly constrain predictions of EeV proton emission models from non-transient Galactic and nearby extragalactic sources as illustrated for the particular case of the Galactic center region.
Pierre Auger Collaboration et. al.
Wed, 14 Dec 16
35/67
Comments: 9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters
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