Correlations and Charge Composition of UHECR without Knowledge of Galactic Magnetic Field

Abstract

We develop a formalism which allows to study correlations of charged UHECR with potential sources without using any Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) model. The method is free of subjective chose of parameters on which the significance of correlations depends strongly. We show that correlations of the AGASA dataset with BL Lacs (found previously after reconstruction of particle trajectories in a specific GMF) are present intrinsically and can be detected without reference to a particular model of magnetic field.Comment: To be published in the Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conferenc