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The population of clearly identified anomalous X-ray pulsars has recently grown to seven, however, one candidate anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) still eludes re-confirmation. Here, we present a set of seven Chandra ACIS-S observations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. R. Tam , V. M. Kaspi , B. M. Gaensler , E. V. Gotthelf

We report on the discovery with Chandra of a strong modulation (~90% pulsed fraction) at ~6.4 h from the source CXOU J123030.3+413853 in the star-forming, low-metallicity spiral galaxy NGC 4490, which is interacting with the irregular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-12-03 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , L. Sidoli , M. Mapelli , L. Zampieri , S. E. Motta

In this Paper we report the discovery of CXO J122518.6+144545; a peculiar X-ray source with a position 3.6+-0.2",off-nuclear from an SDSS DR7 z=0.0447 galaxy. The 3.6" offset corresponds to 3.2 kpc at the distance of the galaxy. The 0.3-8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 P. G. Jonker , M. A. P. Torres , A. C. Fabian , M. Heida , G. Miniutti , D. Pooley

The Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB) X1822-330 in NGC 6652 is one of 12 bright, or transient, X-ray sources to have been discovered in Globular Clusters. We report on a serendipitous ASCA observation of this Globular Cluster LMXB, during which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Koji Mukai , Alan P. Smale

We report on the discovery of a transient X-ray pulsars, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with a pulse period of 292 s. A series of Chandra pointings fortuitously recorded in 2010 April-May the occurrence of a two-weeks-long outburst,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-06 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , L. Sidoli , G. A. Rodríguez Castillo , N. Masetti , P. D'Avanzo , S. Campana

We detect 353 X-ray point sources, mostly low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), in four Chandra observations of Centaurus A (NGC 5128), the nearest giant early-type galaxy, and correlate this point source population with the largest available…

We report the discovery of the transient ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) CXOU J122602.3+125951 (hereafter M86 tULX-1), located 3'52" (19 kpc) northwest of the centre of the giant elliptical galaxy M86 (NGC 4406) in the Virgo Cluster. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-05 Lennart M. van Haaften , Thomas J. Maccarone , Katherine L. Rhode , Arunav Kundu , Stephen E. Zepf

For more than a decade, Alpha Centauri AB (G2V+K1V) has been observed by Chandra, in a long-term program to follow coronal (T~1MK) activity cycles of the two sunlike stars. Over 2008.4-2017.8, nineteen HRC-I exposures were taken, each about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 Thomas R. Ayres

We report the first half-year monitoring of the new Galactic black hole candidate MAXI J1348-630, discovered on 2019 January 26 with the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on-board MAXI. During the monitoring period, the source exhibited two outburst…

XMM-Newton EPIC observations have revealed a bright point-like X-ray source in the nearby Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 55. At the distance of NGC 55, the maximum observed X-ray luminosity of the source, designated as XMMU J001528.9-391319, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A-M. Stobbart , T. P. Roberts , R. S. Warwick

In a 52 ks-long Chandra ACIS-S observation of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 3628, obtained to study the starburst-driven outflow from this galaxy, we have detected a very luminous (L_X = 1.1e40 erg/s in the 0.3-8.0 keV energy band) point…

We discovered and studied an ultraluminous X-ray source (CXOU J203451.1+601043) that appeared in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 at some point between 2008 February and 2012 May, and has remained at luminosities $\approx$2-4 $\times 10^{39}$ erg…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Chen Wang , Roberto Soria , Junfeng Wang

We have identified two moderately bright, rapidly variable transients in new and archival X-ray data near the Galactic center. Both objects show strong, flaring variability on timescales of tens to thousands of seconds, evidence of N_H…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 C. O. Heinke , J. A. Tomsick , F. Yusef-Zadeh , J. E. Grindlay

We present the discovery of a luminous X-ray transient, serendipitously detected by Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT) on 2020 February 5, located in the nucleus of the galaxy SDSS J143359.16+400636.0 at z=0.099 (luminosity distance $D_{\rm…

The 10 by 10 degrees region around dynamic center of our Galaxy is known to host a large number of bright X-ray sources, most of which are low mass binary systems. While high luminosity Z-sources are especially bright in the standard X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov , R. Sunyaev , S. Kuznetsov

We report the discovery of a transient radio source 2.7 arcsec (0.1 pc projected distance) South of the Galactic Center massive black hole, Sagittarius A*. The source flared with a peak of at least 80 mJy in March 2004. The source was…

We study the origin of the ultraluminous X-ray source M82-X1 in the nearby starburst galaxy M82. This X-ray source is of particular interest as it is currently the best candidate intermediate mass black hole; it is associated with a 54mHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Simon Portegies Zwart , Jasinta Dewi , Tom Maccarone

We have discovered an ultrasoft X-ray transient source, 2XMMi J184725.1-631724, which was detected serendipitously in two XMM-Newton observations in the direction of the center of the galaxy IC 4765-f01-1504 at a redshift of 0.0353. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Dacheng Lin , Eleazar R. Carrasco , Dirk Grupe , Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret , Sean A. Farrell

We report on the discovery and analysis of the transient X-ray pulsar XMMU J031747.5-663010 detected in the 2004 November 23 XMM-Newton observation of the spiral galaxy NGC 1313. The X-ray source exhibits pulsations with a period P~765.6 s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-17 Sergey Trudolyubov

The examination of two 2010 Chandra ACIS exposures of the Circinus galaxy resulted in the discovery of two pulsators: CXO J141430.1-651621 and CXOU J141332.9-651756. We also detected 26-ks pulsations in CG X-1, consistently with previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , D. Milisavljevic , M. Mapelli , L. Zampieri , L. Sidoli , G. Fabbiano , G. A. Rodríguez Castillo