Verstörung

Exploring the Small Magellanic Cloud to the Faintest X-Ray Fluxes: Source Catalog, Timing, and Spectral Analysis

“…Both source coordinates agree at the ∼2" level, within a total error budget of ∼4". There is also an ASCA counterpart (Table 8, #35 in Yokogawa et al 2003), identified with the same ROSAT source (AX J0050.8-7310 = RX J0050.9-7310), an association backed up by XMM results & Shtykovskiy & Gilfanov 2005. Haberl & Sasaki (2000 proposed this source to be a Be-XRB, based on its association with an emission-line star (#414 in MA93), which is confirmed by our Chandra error circle (Table 10).…”

“…The PSPC, HRI, and Remarks columns are drawn directly from the Yokogawa et al (2003) catalog, modified in the case of Part 1, with the SXP designation added if known. The PSPC and HRI source numbers derive from and Sasaki et al (2000), and can be compared with Tables 7, & 6. (Filipovic et al 2000).…”

“…CXOU J005428.8-722810, CXOU J005433.0-722806, CXOU J005436.5-722816 -RXJ0054.5-7228 Three DF1 sources (Table 7) fall in the positional error circle of ROSAT PSPC source #248 (RXJ0054.5-7228). Haberl & Sasaki (2000) point out that six emission-line objects from the catalog of MA93 lie in the error circle. We found that none of the 3 Chandra sources has an MA93 counterpart, using a search radius equal to the Chandra 95% error circle in quadrature with 0.75" aspect uncertainty and 5" tolerance on the MA93 coordinates.…”

“…The ROSAT and ASCA missions detected many faint X-ray point sources (e.g. Haberl & Sasaki 2000), but the typical positional uncertainties frequently made positive identification difficult. Recent studies using XMM-Newton (Haberl et al 2008 and Chandra (Antoniou et al 2009) have now pinpointed the optical counterparts of many of these HMXBs.…”

Autopsies on the body of nature: Dark ecology in Thomas Bernhard's Verstörung

“…Verstörung (English title: Gargoyles ) 2 (1967), Bernhard's second novel, arguably represents his most intensive treatment of this theme. In the course of the novel, the unnamed first‐person narrator, a student of mining and metallurgy ( Montanistik ) and thus a natural scientist‐to‐be—one primarily concerned with “the outward aspects of nature” (“Oberflächennatur”; Bernhard, 2010, 49; 1988, 49) 3 —is gradually introduced to an alternative form of natural “science.” Although this alternative form of study is consistently referred to as “scientific” by the various characters who represent and practice it, it does not exactly adhere to the principles and guidelines of conventional scientific research. On the contrary, it is based on a philosophical gaze that discovers beneath the “outward aspects” of natural phenomena (these being primarily phenomena of decay and disintegration) a metaphysical principle of disturbance ( Verstörung ).…”