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We report on our search for the optical counterparts of the Southern Hemisphere anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E1048.1-5937 and the radio-quiet neutron stars in supernova remnants Puppis A, RCW 103, and PKS 1209-52. The observations were carried out with the new MIT/CfA MagIC camera on the Magellan-I 6.5 m telescope in Chile. We present deep multiband optical images of the X-ray error circles for each...

in recent times increasing occurrence of dermatophytosis, especially among the school children in eastern india was evidenced along with increased tendency of keeping companion animals such as dogs and cats. this study was undertaken to detect the occurrence of dermatophytes with antifungal susceptibility among the companion animals. a total of 1501 healthy companion animals comprising 1209 dog...

We analyzed the distal promoter region of the thrombomodulin (TM) gene (nucleotides -300 to -2052) in subjects from the Paris Thrombosis Study (PATHROS), a French case-control study of venous thrombosis, to identify polymorphisms that might modify TM gene expression. Eight novel mutations were found in the 40 DNA samples initially screened. Two of these mutations (-1748G/C and -1208/-1209 del T...

We analyze all X-ray timing data on 1E 1207.4−5209 in supernova remnant PKS 1209−51/52 gathered in 2000–2005, and find a highly stable rotation with P = 424.130751(4) ms and Ṗ = (9.6±9.4)×10 s s. This refutes previous claims of large timing irregularities in these data. In the dipole spin-down formalism, the 2σ upper limit on Ṗ implies an energy loss rate Ė < 1.5×10 ergs s, surface magnetic fie...