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Reconstructing the unknown spectrum of a given X-ray source is a common problem in a wide range of X-ray imaging tasks. For high-energy sources, transmission measurements are mostly used to recover the X-ray spectrum, as a solution to an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Arthur Walker , Alexandre Friou , Kevin Ginsburger

The most recent all-sky surveys performed with the INTEGRAL and SWIFT satellites allowed the detection of more than 1500 sources in hard X-rays above 20 keV. About one quarter of them has no obvious counterpart at other wavelengths and…

We generalize the Maximum Likelihood-type method used to study cross correlations between a catalog of candidate astrophysical sources and Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), to allow for differing source luminosities. The new method is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Ronnie Jansson , Glennys R. Farrar

We present the second ROSAT all-sky survey source catalogue, hereafter referred to as the 2RXS catalogue. This is the second publicly released ROSAT catalogue of point-like sources obtained from the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS) observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-30 Th. Boller , M. J. Freyberg , J. Truemper , F. Haberl , W. Voges , K. Nandra

(abridged) We present a new sample of X-ray selected galaxy groups and clusters serendipitously observed with Swift and the X-ray Telescope (XRT). We searched the XRT archive for extended sources among 336 GRB fields with galactic latitude…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-15 Elena Tundo , Alberto Moretti , Paolo Tozzi , Liu Teng , Piero Rosati , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Sergio Campana

We present the results of our optical identifications of several hard X-ray sources from the INTEGRAL all-sky survey obtained over 14 years of observations. Having improved the positions of these objects in the sky with the X-ray telescope…

The second IBIS/ISGRI survey has produced a catalogue containing 209 hard X-ray sources visible down to a flux limit of around 1 milliCrab. The point source location accuracy of typically 1-3 arcminutes has allowed the counterparts for most…

The IBIS/ISGRI first year galactic plane survey has produced a catalogue containing 123 hard X-ray sources visible down to a flux limit of a few milliCrabs. The point source location accuracy of typically 1-3 arcminutes has allowed the…

We present the first source catalog of the Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) of the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) mission on the International Space Station, using the 45-month data from 2010 August to 2014 April in 0.7--7.0~keV bands.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Hiroshi Tomida , Daiki Uchida , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Ritsuko Imatani , Masashi Kimura , Satoshi Nakahira , Takanori Hanayama , Koshiro Yoshidome

X-ray binaries provide exceptional laboratories for understanding the physics of matter under the most extreme conditions. Until recently, there were few, if any, observational constraints on the circumbinary environments of X-ray binaries…

In this paper, the X-ray Earth occultation (XEO) of the Crab Nebula is investigated by using the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT). The pointing observation data on the 30th September, 2018 recorded by the Low Energy X-ray…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-08 Daochun Yu , Haitao Li , Baoquan Li , Mingyu Ge , Youli Tuo , Xiaobo Li , Wangchen Xue , Yaning Liu , Aoying Wang , Yajun Zhu , Bingxian Luo

While the energy density of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) provides a statistical estimate of the super massive black hole (SMBH) growth and mass density in the Universe, the lack, so far, of focusing instrument in the 20-60 keV (where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Fiore , G. C. Perola , G. Pareschi , O. Citterio , A. Anselmi , A. Comastri

We have searched the archived, pointed ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter data for blazars by correlating the WGACAT X-ray database with several publicly available radio catalogs, restricting our candidate list to serendipitous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Landt , P. Padovani , E. Perlman , P. Giommi , H. Bignall , A. Tzioumis

We present the scientific goals, the strategy and the first results of the REX project, an effort aimed at creating a sizable and statistically complete sample of Radio Emitting X-ray sources (REX) using the available data from a VLA survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Caccianiga , T. Maccacaro , A. Wolter , R. Della Ceca , I. M. Gioia

We present a comprehensive catalog of 251 potential counterparts for 250 unassociated hard X-ray sources detected in the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) 150-month hard X-ray survey. Over 150 months of observation, BAT has detected 2339…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 K. Imam , N. Torres-Alba , S. Marchesi , M. Ajello , S. Joffre , I. Cox , A. Pizzetti , X. Zhao , A. Segreto , A. Banerjee , I. Pal , V. E. Gianolli , D. Stern

We consider the prospects for a complete survey of the 18,811 sources of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (BSC) with NASA's Swift gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission. By observing each BSC source for 500 s with the satellite's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Derek B. Fox

Hard X-ray selection is the most efficient way to discriminate between accretion-powered sources, such as AGN, from sources dominated by starlight. Hard X-rays are also less affected than other bands by obscuration. We have then carried out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Fiore , F. La Franca , P. Giommi , M. Elvis , G. Matt , A. Comastri , S. Molendi , I. Gioia

The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) represents one of the most complete and sensitive soft X-ray all-sky surveys to date. However, the deficient positional accuracy of the RASS Bright Source Catalog (BSC) and subsequent lack of firm optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Shuang Gao , Song Wang , Jifeng Liu

This paper presents the analysis of a statistically complete sample of 28 serendipitous X-ray sources selected in 82 pointed XMM-Newton fields down to a count-rate of 0.002 counts s^-1(4.5-7.5 keV energy band). This is the first sample…

The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) will perform an all-sky survey in hard X-ray band as well as deep imaging of a series of small sky regions. We expect various compact objects to be detected in these imaging observations. Point…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Zhuoxi Huo , Yiming Li , Xiaobo Li , Jianfeng Zhou