Speaker
Carola Dobrigkeit
(UNICAMP, Brazil)
Description
The Pierre Auger Observatory addresses the most fundamental questions about the nature and origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays. The data taken with the Pierre Auger Observatory have already led to a number of major breakthroughs in the field contributing to the advance of our understanding of these extremely energetic particles. The spectrum and the arrival direction distribution are key observables to search for sources or source regions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, and for the transition from Galactic to extragalactic cosmic rays. In this talk we address the results obtained by the Pierre Auger Observatory on the studies of these observables, after having recently completed ten years of continuous data taking. We present the latest results on the energy spectrum, and of the studies of anisotropies performed on the ten-year data set of arrival directions of cosmic rays at large and small angular scales. We also address the plans and motivations for the future upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Author
Carola Dobrigkeit
(UNICAMP, Brazil)
Co-author
Pierre Auger Collaboration The
(Pierre Auger Observatory)
