In the present-day cosmic ray data, the strongest indication of anisotropy of the ultrahigh energy cosmic rays is the 20-degree hotspot observed by the Telescope Array with the statistical significance of 3.4σ. In this work, we study the possibility of detecting such a spot by space-based all-sky observatories. We show that if the detected luminosity of the hotspot is attributed to a physical effect and not a statistical fluctuation, the KLYPVE and JEM-EUSO experiments would need to collect ∼300events with E>57  EeV in order to detect the hotspot at the 5σ confidence level with the 68% probability. We also study the dependence of the detection prospects on the hotspot luminosity.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.103005