Fig. 3.

Response of the thrust observables to typical deflection patterns. a–c Mean and spread of the observables $T_{1,2,3}$ as a function of the strength of the deflection in turbulent magnetic fields $C_{\text{T}}$. Red circles correspond to no directed deflection, green triangles to $C_{\text{C}}=0.5$ rad EeV and blue squares to $C_{\text{C}}=1.0$ rad EeV. The shaded area corresponds to the $1\mathit{\sigma }$ and $2\mathit{\sigma }$ expectations of the observables for an isotropic distribution of cosmic rays. d Circular variance of the thrust-major axes calculated in the simulations in 100 ROIs. Gray shading corresponds to the probability density of the expectation value of the circular variance of uniformly-distributed directions