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The galaxy NGC1512 is interacting with the smaller galaxy NGC1510 and shows a peculiar morphology, characterised by two extended arms immersed in an HI disc whose size is about four times larger than the optical diameter of NGC1512. For the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 L. Ducci , P. J. Kavanagh , M. Sasaki , B. S. Koribalski

1LHAASO J1740+0948u is a very-high-energy (VHE) source reported by LHAASO, with no counterpart at other wavelengths. It is located at 0.2{\deg} from PSR J1740+1000, a radio and gamma-ray pulsar placed well above the Galactic plane, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-01 G. Brunelli , G. Ponti , H. Zhang , E. de Oña Wilhelmi , V. Sguera , C. Vignali , R. Zanin

We present a multi-epoch, multi-observatory X-ray analysis for 2FHL J1745.1-3035, a newly discovered very high energy Galactic source detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) located in close proximity to the Galactic Center…

The Be star zeta Tau was recently reported to be a gamma Cas analog; that is, it displays an atypical (bright and hard) X-ray emission. The origin of these X-rays remains debated.The first X-ray observations indicated a very large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Yael Naze , Christian Motch , G. Rauw , Myron A. Smith , Jan Robrade

We have investigated the X-ray spectral properties of a sample of 138 X-ray sources detected serendipitously in $XMM-Newton$ observations of the Galactic plane, at an intermediate to faint flux level. We divide our sample into 5 subgroups…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 R. S. Warwick , K. Byckling , D. Pérez-Ramírez

Using the sensitive XMM-Newton observatory, we have observed the giant HII region N11 in the LMC for \sim30 ks. We have detected several large areas of soft diffuse X-ray emission along with 37 point sources. One of the most interesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Naze , I. I. Antokhin , G. Rauw , Y. -H. Chu , J. -M. Vreux

We continue to study the fast X-ray transient XTE J1901+014 discovered in 2002 by the RXTE observatory, whose nature has not yet been established. Based on the XMM-Newton observations of the source in 2006, we have obtained its energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. I. Karasev , A. A. Lutovinov , R. A. Burenin

Very recently, diffuse gamma rays with $0.1\,{\rm PeV}<E_\gamma <1\,\rm PeV$ have been discovered from the Galactic disk by the Tibet air shower array and muon detector array (Tibet AS+MD array). While the measured sub-PeV flux may be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

A new extended gamma-ray source, which was named as Source A, in the southwest of Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) G306.3$-$0.9 was detected with a significance of $\sim$13$\sigma$ at the location of R.A. (J2000) = 13$^{\rm{h}}$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-19 Tulun Ergin , Satoru Katsuda , Aytap Sezer , Ryo Yamazaki , Miroslav Filipovic , Hidetoshi Sano , Yasuo Fukui , Shuta Tanaka

We report the observation of a very high energy \gamma-ray source, whose position is coincident with HESS J1841-055. This source has been observed for 4.5 years by the ARGO-YBJ experiment from November 2007 to July 2012. Its emission is…

We present X-ray and 12CO(J=1-0) observations of the very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray source HESS J1813-178 with the aim of understanding the origin of the gamma-ray emission. Using this dataset we are able to undertake spectral and…

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) gamma-ray observatory is carrying out a detailed survey of the northern sky at TeV energies. 2HWC J2006+341 is a newly discovered source reported by the point source search in the 2HWC HAWC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-25 Miguel Araya

We report here on the results of the analysis of Chandra, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR recent observations of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient XTEJ1739-302. The source was caught in a low X-ray luminosity state, from a few $10^{31}$ to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-22 Lara Sidoli , Gabriele Ponti , Vito Sguera , Paolo Esposito

Very-high-energy (VHE) observations have revealed approximately 100 TeV sources in our Galaxy, and a significant fraction of them are under investigation for understanding their origin. We report our study of one of them, HESS~J1844$-$030.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 D. Zheng , Z. Wang , X. Zhang , Y. Chen , Y. Xing

Observations conducted with H.E.S.S. at high energies have led to the discovery of numerous gamma-ray sources in the Galactic plane at TeV energies. One of these sources, HESS J1832-085, has been suggested to be a pulsar wind nebula (PWN);…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-24 Ebru Aktekin

We present the results of XMM-Newton observations toward the pulsar PSR J1826$-$1256, which lies at 5$^{\prime}$.4 from the centroid of the TeV source HESS J1826$-$130. These data show an elongated nebula with the pulsar located in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 L. Duvidovich , E. Giacani , G. Castelletti , A. Petriella , L. Supan

Many of the recently discovered TeV gamma-ray sources are associated with pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe). In fact, they represent the most populous class of Galactic sources at TeV energies. In addition, HESS has also discovered, in a survey of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chulhoon Chang , Alexander Konopelko , Wei Cui

We have observed the X-ray transient XTE J0421+56 in quiescence with XMM-Newton. The observed spectrum is highly unusual being dominated by an emission feature at ~6.5 keV. The spectrum can be fit using a partially covered power-law and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Boirin , A. N. Parmar , T. Oosterbroek , D. Lumb , M. Orlandini , N. Schartel

The Cygnus region of the Galactic plane is a promising target for high-energy and very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray telescopes as it is home to many potential sources, such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, X-ray binaries and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Rene A. Ong

The XMM-Newton data presented here are the first X-ray observation of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC4138. Although the galaxy has been pointed by ROSAT-HRI, it was not detected, with a flux upper limit of about 1.1x10^-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1 in the…

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