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K. Hurley (UC Berkeley SSL), C. Kouveliotou (USRA-MSFC), R. Duncan (UT Austin), F. Vrba (USNO), G. Garmire, E. Feigelson (Penn State University), P. Woods (USRA - MSFC), P. Li (UC Berkeley SSL)
The magnetar model predicts that soft gamma repeaters may be born with high velocities, and SGR1900+14 appears to be an extreme example of this. Its transverse motion in fact appears to be so large that it can be measured by comparing a single Chandra observation to previous radio observations of this source. We have now conducted a 30 ksec observation of the source with Chandra. Data analysis is currently underway, and we will report on the latest results here.