30TH INTERNATIONAL COSMIC RAY CONFERENCE An Alternative Method to Finding Patterns in HiRes Stereo Data
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In this paper, Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) data observed by the HiRes fluorescence detector in stereo mode is analyzed to search for events in the sky with an arrival direction lying on a great circle. Such a structure is known as an arc structure. An arc structure is expected when the charged cosmic rays pass through the galactic magnetic field. The arcs searched for could represent a broador a small-scale anisotropy depending on the proposed source model for the UHECRs. The arcs in this study are searched for using Hough transform, a technique used to look for patterns in images. No statistically significant arcs were found in this study.
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