CONSTRAINING THE PROPER MOTIONS OF TWO MAGNETARS

Constraining the Proper Motions of Two Magnetars

We attempt to measure the proper motions of two magnetars — the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 1900+14 and the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 2259+586 — using two epochs of Chandra observations separated by ∼ 5 yr. We perform extensive tests using these data, archival data, and simulations to verify the accuracy of our measurements and understand their limitations. We find 90% upper limits on the prope...

Structure of proper motions in a sunspot penumbra

a case study of the two translators of the holy quran: tahereh saffarzadeh and laleh bakhtiar

بطورکلی، کتاب های مقدسی همچون قران کریم را خوانندگان میتوان مطابق با پیش زمینه های مختلفی که درند درک کنند. محقق تلاش کرده نقش پیش زمینه اجتماعی-فرهنگی را روی ایدئولوژی های مترجمین زن و در نتیجه تاثیراتش را روی خواندن و ترجمه آیات قرآن کریم بررسی کند و ببیند که آیا تفاوت های واژگانی عمده ای میان این مترجمین وجود دارد یا نه. به این منظور، ترجمه 24 آیه از آیات قرآن کریم مورد بررسی مقایسه ای قرار ...

The dangers of deprojection of proper motions

We re-examine the method of deprojection of proper motions, which has been used for finding the velocity ellipsoid of stars in the nearby Galaxy. This method is only legitimate if the lines of sight to the individual stars are uncorrelated with the stars’ velocities. Very simple models are used to show that spurious results similar to ones recently reported are obtained when velocity dispersion...

Proper Motions in the Andromeda Subgroup

This article presents results of VLBI observations of regions of H2O maser activity in the Local Group galaxies M33 and IC 10. Since all position measurements were made relative to extragalactic background sources, the proper motions of the two galaxies could be measured. For M33, this provides this galaxy’s three dimensional velocity, showing that this galaxy is moving with a velocity of 190 ±...