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We study the possibility that γ-ray loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by using a correlation analysis of their locations and the arrival directions of UHECR. We use data for γ-ray loud AGN with d ≤ 100 Mpc from the second Fermi Large-area Telescope AGN catalog and UHECR data with E ≥ 55 EeV observed by the Pierre Auger Observatory. The distribution of arrival directions expected from theγ-ray loud AGN is compared with that of the observed UHECR by using the correlational angular distance distribution and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. We conclude that the hypothesis that the γ-ray loud AGN are the dominant sources of UHECR is disfavored unless there is a large smearing effect due to intergalactic magnetic fields.
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Kim, J., Kim, H.B. Correlation between ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and active galactic nuclei from the fermi large-area telescope. Journal of the Korean Physical Society 61, 1911–1917 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3938/jkps.61.1911
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