Harmonic correlators for UHECRs

Discussion timeslot (ZOOM-Meeting): 15. July 2021 - 12:00
ZOOM-Meeting URL: https://desy.zoom.us/j/92210078166
ZOOM-Meeting ID: 92210078166
ZOOM-Meeting Passcode: ICRC2021
Corresponding Session: https://icrc2021-venue.desy.de/channel/06-CR-Anisotropies-CRI/118
Live-Stream URL: https://icrc2021-venue.desy.de/livestream/Discussion-03/4

Abstract:
'I will review the applications, advantages, limitations, and current status of harmonic techniques to detect anisotropies in the UHECR arrival direction distribution. In particular I will focus on the harmonic cross-correlation between the UHECR sky and galaxies, where the latter are taken as proxies for the locations of UHECR sources in the assumption that such sources correlate with the large-scale structure of the Universe. This type of harmonic cross-correlation has been proposed only recently, and it shows very promising complementarities with the well-known harmonic UHECR autocorrelation. After a brief introduction I will discuss novel tools and applications to account for different UHECR chemical composition and for the random deflections caused by the galactic magnetic field. I will show how the combination of UHECR harmonic auto-correlation and cross-correlations with large-scale structures can disentangle different UHECR primaries and could reverse-engineer some of the effects of the galactic magnetic field to a much better degree than the auto-correlation alone. I will conclude with an outlook on applications to other data sets, such as astrophysical neutrinos.'

Authors: Federico Urban
Indico-ID: 1230
Proceeding URL: https://pos.sissa.it/395/440