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We perform a detailed study of the stacked Suzaku observations of 47 galaxy clusters, spanning a redshift range of 0.01-0.45, to search for the unidentified 3.5 keV line. This sample provides an independent test for the previously detected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-01 Esra Bulbul , Maxim Markevitch , Adam Foster , Eric Miller , Mark Bautz , Mike Loewenstein , Scott W. Randall , Randall K. Smith

We made a 100 ks observation of the Sagittarius (Sgr) B1 region at (l, b) = (0.5, -0.1) near to the Galactic center (GC) with the Suzaku/XIS. Emission lines of S XV, Fe I, Fe XXV, and Fe XXVI were clearly detected in the spectrum. We found…

High quality 4500-6800 A spectropolarimetric observations of the Circinus galaxy are reported. These show polarized and relatively broad (FWHM~3300 km/s) Halpha (as well as marginal Hbeta) arising from a <3" (<60 pc) region centered on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Oliva , A. Marconi , A. Cimatti , S. di Serego Alighieri

We present a broadband (~0.5-79 keV) spectral and temporal analysis of multiple NuSTAR observations combined with archival Suzaku and Chandra data of NGC4945, the brightest extragalactic source at 100 keV. We observe hard X-ray (> 10 keV)…

We present near-infrared broad-band polarization images of the nuclear regions of the Circinus galaxy in the J, H and K bands. For the first time the south-eastern reflection cone is detected in polarized light, which is obscured at optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Ruiz , D. M. Alexander , S. Young , J. Hough , S. L. Lumsden , C. A. Heisler

A detailed analysis of the nonthermal X-ray emission from the North-Western and Southern parts of the supernova remnant (SNR) HESS J1731$ - $347 with {\it Suzaku} is presented. The shell portions covered by the observations emit hard and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Aya Bamba , Gerd Puehlhofer , Fabio Acero , Dmitry Klochkov , Wenwu Tian , Ryo Yamazaki , Zhiyuan Li , Dieter Horns , Karl Kosack , Nukri Komin

We have used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to resolve spatially and spectrally the X-ray emission from the Circinus Galaxy. We report here on the nature of the X-ray emission from the off-nuclear point sources associated with the disk of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. E. Bauer , W. N. Brandt , R. M. Sambruna , G. Chartas , G. P. Garmire , S. Kaspi , H. Netzer

We report on an 105 ks Suzaku observation of the supernova remnant CTA 1 (G119.5+10.2). The Suzaku soft X-ray observation was carried out with both timing mode and imaging mode. A ~ 10' extended feature, which is interpreted as a bow-shock…

We present NuSTAR observations of the powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A, focusing on the central absorbed active galactic nucleus (AGN). Cygnus A is embedded in a cool-core galaxy cluster, and hence we also examine archival XMM-Newton data to…

We present the analysis of Suzaku and XMM-Newton observations of the broad-line radio galaxy (BLRG) 3C 111. Its high energy emission shows variability, a harder continuum with respect to the radio quiet AGN population, and weak reflection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 L. Ballo , V. Braito , J. N. Reeves , R. M. Sambruna , F. Tombesi

The radio galaxy Cen A has been detected all the way up to the TeV energy range. This raises the question about the dominant emission mechanisms in the high-energy domain. Spectral analysis allows us to put constraints on the possible…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 V. Beckmann , P. Jean , P. Lubinski , S. Soldi , R. Terrier

We report on a dramatic flux (50 % increase in the LECS and MECS band) and spectral variation between two BeppoSAX observations of the Circinus Galaxy performed almost three years apart. Through the analysis of all Chandra observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 S. Bianchi , G. Matt , F. Fiore , A. C. Fabian , K. Iwasawa , F. Nicastro

We present the results from the RXTE observations of Cygnus X-1 in its high state. In the energy range of 2-200 keV, the observed X-ray spectrum can be described by a model consisting of a soft blackbody component and a broken power-law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Cui , W. A. Heindl , R. E. Rothschild , S. N. Zhang , K. Jahoda , W. Focke

An observation of the West lobe of radio galaxy Fornax A (NGC 1316) with Suzaku is reported. Since Feigelson et al. (1995) and Kaneda et al. (1995) discovered the cosmic microwave background boosted inverse-Comptonized (IC) X-rays from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Makoto S. Tashiro , Naoki Isobe , Hiromi Seta , Keiko Matsuta , Yuichi Yaji

The bright type I Seyfert galaxy NGC 3516 was observed by {\it Suzaku} twice, in 2005 October 12--15 and 2009 October 28--November 2, for a gross time coverage of 242 and 544 ksec and a net exposure of 134 and 255 ksec, respectively. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-20 Hirofumi Noda , Kazuo Makishima , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Shin'ya Yamada

We observed the nearby galaxy M~51 (NGC 5194) with BeppoSAX. The X-ray properties of the nucleus below 10 keV are almost the same as the ASCA results regarding the hard component and the neutral Fe K$\alpha$ line, but the intensity is about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yasushi Fukazawa , Naoko Iyomoto , Aya Kubota , Yukari Matsumoto , Kazuo Makishima

We present the results from deep Suzaku observations of the central region of the Perseus cluster. Bulbul et al. (2014) reported the detection by XMM-Newton instruments of an unidentified X-ray emission line at an energy around 3.5keV in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Takayuki Tamura , Ryo Iizuka , Yoshitomo Maeda , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Noriko Y. Yamasaki

We report on a 300 ks BeppoSAX (0.12-200 keV) observation of Circinus X-1 (Cir X-1) at phases between 0.62 and 0.84 and on a 90 ks BeppoSAX observation of Cir X--1 at phases 0.11-0.16. Using the canonical model adopted until now to fit the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Iaria , M. Spano' , T. Di Salvo , N. R. Robba , L. Burderi , R. Fender , M. van der Klis , F. Frontera

The dipping X-ray source 4U 1822$-$37 was observed by Suzaku on 2006 Octrober 20 for a net exposure of 37 ks. The source was detected with the XIS at a 1-10 keV flux of 5.5$\times10^{-10}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, and with the HXD (HXD-PIN)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Makoto Sasano , Kazuo Makishima , Soki Sakurai , Zhongli Zhang , Teruaki Enoto

The fastest-rotating magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 was observed in broad-band X-rays with Suzaku for 33 ks on 2009 January 28-29, 7 days after the onset of its latest bursting activity. After removing burst events, the absorption-uncorrected 2-10…