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Observation of anisotropy of cosmic ray showers of the highest energy

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Detected directions of incoming showers (black circles) and positions of known active galactic nuclei closer than 75 megaparsecs (red dots).

Literature
[1] Pierre Auger Collaboration (J. Abraham,... M. Boháčová, T. Kárová, P. Nečesal, M. Prouza, J. Řídký, R. Šmída, P. Travníček): Correlation of the highest energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects, Science 318, 939–943 (2007).

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