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The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5 EeV has been measured across the declination range -90°≤δ≤+44.8° using ∼310 000 events accrued at the Pierre Auger Observatory from an exposure of (104 900±3 100) km^{2} sr yr. No significant variations of energy spectra with declination are observed, after allowing or not for nonuniformities across the sky arising from the well-established dipolar anisotropies in the arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. The instep feature in the spectrum at ≃10 EeV reported previously is now established at a significance above 5σ. Within the statistics, the energy spectra are indistinguishable across declinations so disfavoring an origin for the instep from a few distinctive sources.

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The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5 EeV has been measured across the declination range -90°≤δ≤+44.8° using ∼310 000 events accrued at the Pierre Auger Observatory from an exposure of (104 900±3 100) km^{2} sr yr. No significant variations of energy spectra with declination are observed, after allowing or not for nonuniformities across the sky arising from the well-established dipolar anisotropies in the arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. The instep feature in the spectrum at ≃10 EeV reported previously is now established at a significance above 5σ. Within the statistics, the energy spectra are indistinguishable across declinations so disfavoring an origin for the instep from a few distinctive sources.

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