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arxiv: 0802.4403 · v2 · submitted 2008-02-29 · 🌌 astro-ph

The puzzling MILAGRO hot spots

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We discuss the reported detection by the MILAGRO experiment of localised hot spots in the cosmic ray arrival distribution and the difficulty of interpreting these observations. A model based on secondary neutron production in the heliotail is shown to fail. An alternative model based on loss-cone leakage through a magnetic trap from a local source region is proposed.

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