The general Characteristics of the frequencyfunction of stellar movements 

 TABLE XIII. . TABLE XIV. 



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2' 



1.0000 



0.8422 



0.6205 





ßsoo 



-|- 0.0993 



-f- 0.0202 



— 0.1012 



0.80 



ß?l. 



+ 0.1830 



+ 0.0603 



— 0.1139 



0.76 



p?.. 



+ 0.0869 



- 0.0044 



— 0.1298 



0.85 



ßo8 0 



+ 0.2000 



+ 0.0734 



— 0.0988 



0.74 



ßoa* 



-f- 0.1166 



+ 0.0291 



— 0.0876 



0.80 



ßol, 



+ 0.1553 



— 0.0014 



— 0.2488 



0.85 



ßö'o 3 



+ 0.2182 



+ 0.1083 



— 0.0197 



0.70 



ß'; ! o 2 



— 0.0519 



— 0.1132 



— 0.2106 





ßfo, 



+ 0.0812 



-f- 0.0164 



— 0.0749 



0.80 



ßf, x 



+ 0.0583 



-+- 0.0239 



-f- 0.0322 





2.' 



1.0000 



0.8422 



0.6205 





ß*0 0 



-+- 0.1373 



-f- 0.0000 



— 0.0797 



0.84 



ßsio 



— 0.0761 



— 0.0663 



+ 0.0335 



0.66 



ß»'« 0 



-j- 0.3423 



-f- 0.0385 



— 0.1079 



0.81 



0 



— 0.0349 



— 0.0539 



-\- 0.0242 



0.68 





-f- 0.1809 



-f- 0.0296 



— 0.0239 



0.78 



o(V ° 



-f- 0.0129 



— 0.0580 



— 0.0554 



0.91 



ß£. 



+ 0.2818 



+ 0.0463 



— 0.0532 



0.79 





-f 0.8211 



+ 0.3428 



+ 0.1360 







-f- 0.5901 



+ 0.2265 



— 0.0239 



0.64 





— 0.0805 



— 0.0761 





0.71 



l J 2 0 2 



+ 0.9682 



+ 0.1294 



— 0.4932 



0.81 





— 0.1783 



— 0.0679 



+ 0.0606 



0.73 



ß?tt 



+ 0.2063 



+ 0.0497 



+ 0.0150 





ß", 



+ 0.2727 



+ 0.1084 



+ 0.0594 





«" 



— 0.1578 



— 0.0200 



+ 0.2422 



0.82 



The most remarkable feature of the characteristics is the systematically low 

 values for q of the order of magnitude 0.8. Evidently the correlation coefficients 

 show nothing new, they are only significant of the variation of the vertex directions 

 for different q . But it is seen that nearly nil the characteristics of the third and 

 the fourth order change sign for q between 0.84 and 0.62. The last column of 

 tables XIII and XIV contains the value of q for which the characteristic is zero. 

 Some of the characteristics do not change sign for any plausible value of q' . For 

 them the last columns are empty. 



Of course nothing definite can be gathered from these figures regarding the 

 true value of q . There is nothing, to our knowlegde, that forces us to take for q' 

 a value that makes the higher characteristics small, it is only a very suggestive fact 

 that they will, on the whole, be small if we take a value of q between 0.7 and 0.8. * 



Besides, other suggestive circumstances can also be found. Computing for 

 instance by the formula (26) of § 6 the coordinates of the mode (the vector of 

 maximum frequency) we find the following values: 



* It is also to be noted that the skewness and excess of the radial velocities are found to 

 be small. 



