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We study the spatial distribution of a 95% complete sample of 508 X-ray point sources (XPS) detected in the 0.5-2.0 keV band in Chandra ACIS-I observations of 51 massive galaxy clusters found in the MACS survey. Covering the redshift range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joshua T. Ruderman , Harald Ebeling

We discovered an X-ray cluster in a Chandra observation of the compact steep spectrum (CSS) radio source 1321+045 (z=0.263). CSS sources are thought to be young radio objects at the beginning of their evolution and can potentially test the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Kunert-Bajraszewska , A. Siemiginowska , A. Labiano

We present results from an analysis of a Chandra observation of the cluster of galaxies Abell 3581. We discover the presence of a point-source in the central dominant galaxy which is coincident with the core of the radio source PKS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 R. M. Johnstone , A. C. Fabian , R. G. Morris , G. B. Taylor

Elemental abundances are key to our understanding of star formation and evolution in the Galactic center. Previous work on this topic has been based on infrared (IR) observations, but X-ray observations have the potential of constraining…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-12 Ziqian Hua , Zhiyuan Li , Mengfei Zhang , Zhuo Chen , Mark R. Morris

We report the first unambiguous detection of X-ray emission originating from Saturn with a Chandra observation, duration 65.5 ksec with ACIS-S3. Beyond the pure detection we analyze the spatial distribution of X-rays on the planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -U. Ness , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , S. J. Wolk , K. Dennerl , V. Burwitz

We present a detailed spectral and spatial analysis of the X-ray properties of the compact and unusual radio galaxy 3C 346, combining information from ROSAT and ASCA. The dominant component of X-ray emission (~ 10^44 ergs/s in each of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw

We investigate the X-ray properties of the powerful radio galaxy Hercules A (3C 348) using ROSAT HRI, PSPC and ASCA observations. The ASCA data are well fit by a thermal plasma model with a temperature of about 4.3 keV and abundances 0.4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Siebert , N. Kawai , W. Brinkmann

An analysis of a ROSAT/PSPC observation of the galaxy cluster A2634 is presented. The cluster has a luminosity of $7.9\pm0.1\times10^{43}$erg/s in the ROSAT band (0.1-2.4 keV). The temperature profile decreases from about 3 keV in the outer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sabine Schindler , M. Almudena Prieto

We use gas-dynamical simulations of galaxy clusters to compare their X-ray and strong lensing properties. Special emphasis is laid on mass estimates. The cluster masses range between 6 x 10^14 solar masses and 4 x 10^15 solar masses, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthias Bartelmann , Matthias Steinmetz

We present a new mass estimate of a well-studied gravitational lensing cluster, Abell 1689, from deep Chandra observations with a total exposure of 200 ks. Within r=200 h-1 kpc, the X-ray mass estimate is systematically lower than that of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. -H. Peng , K. Andersson , M. W. Bautz , G. P. Garmire

Recent observations of high energy (> 20 keV) X-ray emission in a few clusters extend and broaden our knowledge of physical phenomena in the intracluster space. This emission is likely to be nonthermal, probably resulting from Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoel Rephaeli

The cluster soft excess emission indicates the presence of large amounts of warm gas (T ~ 10^6 K) in the neighborhood of galaxy clusters. Among the clusters that display this phenomenon is the Coma cluster, the nearest rich galaxy cluster.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bonamente , R. Lieu , J. P. D. Mittaz

We report X-ray observations of the field containing the ultraluminous IRAS galaxy Mrk~273 Using the ACIS-S3 instrument on board Chandra. The high resolution X-ray image, for the first time, reveals a compact hard X-ray nucleus in Mrk~273.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 X. Y. Xia , S. J. Xue , S. Mao , Th. Boller , Z. G. Deng , H. Wu

We analyze Chandra observations of diffuse soft X-ray emission associated with a complete sample of 3CR radio galaxies at z < 0.3. In this paper we focus on the properties of the spectroscopic sub-classes of high excitation galaxies (HEGs)…

Diffuse X-ray emission has been detected from a few Galactic globular clusters (GCs), whereas its nature still remains largely unclear. The GC Terzan 5 was previously found to show a significant diffuse thermal X-ray excess from its field,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Jiaqi Zhao , Craig O. Heinke , Su Fu

The exquisite angular resolution available with Chandra should allow precision measurements of faint diffuse emission surrounding bright sources, such as the X-ray scattering halos created by interstellar dust. However, the ACIS CCDs suffer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Randall K. Smith

We present the results of an 80 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of the double pulsar system J0737-3039. Furthermore, we report on spectral, spatial and timing analysis of the combined X-ray observations performed so far for this system.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Possenti , N. Rea , M. A. McLaughlin , F. Camilo , M. Kramer , M. Burgay , B. C. Joshi , A. G. Lyne

We observed several nearby face-on spiral galaxies with the ROSAT PSPC to study their 0.1-2.0 keV diffuse emission. After the exclusion of resolved discrete sources, there is unresolved X-ray emission in all the galaxies observed. Since…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Wei Cui , Wilton T. Sanders , Dan McCammon , Steven L. Snowden , Donna S. Womble

We present Chandra X-ray Observations of the Hydra A cluster of galaxies, and we report the discovery of structure in the central 80 kpc of the cluster's X-ray-emitting gas. The most remarkable structures are depressions in the X-ray…

Wide-band Suzaku data on the merging cluster Abell 3667 were examined for hard X-ray emission in excess to the known thermal component. Suzaku detected X-ray signals in the wide energy band from 0.5 to 40 keV. The hard X-ray (> 10 keV) flux…