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Contribution Poster (WITHDRAWN)
On the nonlinear phenomena in the arrival time series of air showers observed at Mt. Chacaltaya
Speakers
- Prof. Nobuharu OHMORI
Primary authors
- Prof. Nobuharu OHMORI (Faculty of Science,Kochi University,780-8520,Japan)
Co-authors
- Dr. Masato HINACO (Faculty of Science,Kochi University,780-8520,Japan)
- Prof. Ken HONDA (Faculty of Engineering,Yamanashi University,400-8511,Japan)
- Prof. Norio KAWASUMI (Fuculty of Education,Yamanashi University,400-8510,Japan)
- Prof. Naoya INOUE (Faculty of Science,Saitama University,388-8570,Japan)
- Prof. Masanobu TAMADA (Fuculty of Science and Engineering,Kinki University,577-8520,Japan)
- Prof. Akinori OHSAWA (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research,University of Tokyo,277-8582,Japan)
- Prof. Hiroshi AOKI (Faculty of Science,Soka University,192-8577,Japan)
- Prof. Nobuaki OCHI (Yonago National College of Technology,683-8502,Japan)
- Prof. Roland TICONA (Institute de Investigaciones Fisicas,Universidad Mayor San Andres,La Paz,Bolivia)
Abstract content
Several reports indicate the existence of non-random features of arrival time series of air showers observed at sea levels. The non-randomness shows fractal feature and they concluded that a new origin of source or propagation mechanism of cosmic rays are necessary.
We examin these phenomena with using arrival time series of air showers observed at Mt. Chacaltaya in ten yeas. The location of our array ( 5200m a.s.l. ) is expected to reveal new aspects on them which cannot be observed by sea-level detectors.
Our characteristics of analysis differ from preceding ones on three points, one is using data from much lower energy region ( > 5x10 times 13-th eV ) ,another is using method of analysis not only Grassberger-Procaccia method but also Wayland and Lyapunov exponents estimation methods and the last one is that we can use informations of air shower size.
With these methods, we can select non biased events to observe and also classify observed candidates with fractal feature between chaotic and colored noise ones.
We have performed a time series analysis to search for nonlinear features of arriving UHE cosmic rays and have concluded that all observed ones have features with colored noise only and could not observe real chaotic one. Our result is implying the existence of fractal effect on propagations of these cosmic rays in ISM.