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The relatively nearby (distance=24.1 Mpc) elliptical galaxy NGC821, hosting a central massive black hole but inactive at all wavelengths, was observed with Chandra for a total exposure of 230 ksec, to search for nuclear emission and gas…

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We summarize here the results, most of which are preliminary, of a number of recent observations of the Crab nebula system with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. We discuss four different topics: (1) The motion on long (> 1yr) time scales of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-15 Martin C. Weisskopf

We present a {\it Chandra} ACIS observation of SNR G54.1+0.3. This supernova remnant is resolved into several distinct X-ray emitting components: a central bright point-like source (CXOU J193030.13+185214.1), a surrounding ring, bipolar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Lu , Q. D. Wang , B. Aschenbach , Ph. Durouchoux , L. M. Song

We report on diffuse X-ray emission associated with the nearby solitary millisecond pulsar PSR J2124-3358 detected with XMM-Newton and Chandra. The emission extends from the pulsar to the northwest by ~0.5 arcmin. The spectrum of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Y. Hui , W. Becker

The TeV gamma-ray point source HESSJ1832-093 remains unidentified despite extensive multi-wavelength studies. The gamma-ray emission could originate in a very compact pulsar wind nebula or an X-ray binary system composed of the X-ray source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 P. Eger , H. Laffon , P. Bordas , E. de Ona Whilhelmi , J. Hinton , G. Puehlhofer

We report a detection of GeV $\gamma$-ray emission potentially originating from the pulsar wind nebula in CTA 1 by analyzing about 15 yr of Fermi Large Area Telescope data. By selecting an energy range from 50 GeV to 1 TeV to remove…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Liancheng Zhou , Keyao Wu , Yunlu Gong , Jun Fang

We report the discovery with BeppoSAX of a new 170.84 +/- 0.04 s X-ray pulsar, 1SAX J1324.4-6200, found serendipitously in the field of the X-ray binary X1323-619 in 1997 August. The source and periodicity are also detected in archival ASCA…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Angelini , M. J. Church , A. N. Parmar , M. Balucinska-Church , T. Mineo

We report the discovery of pulsed X-ray emission from the compact object CXOU J112439.1-591620 within the Galactic supernova remnant G292.0+1.8 using the High Resolution Camera on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. The X-ray period is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Hughes , Robert B. Friedman , Patrick Slane , Sangwook Park

HESS J1809-193 is an extended TeV $\gamma$-ray source and the origin of its $\gamma$-ray emission remains ambiguous. Pulsar wind nebula (PWN) of PSR J1809-1917 laying inside the extended $\gamma$-ray emission is a possible candidate.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-07 Chao-Ming Li , Chong Ge , Ruo-Yu Liu

We report Chandra X-ray observations of the supernova remnant N157B in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which are presented together with an archival HST optical image and a radio continuum map for comparison. This remnant contains the recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Q. D. Wang , E. V. Gotthelf , Y. -H. Chu , J. R. Dickel

We report the results of a search for a point X-ray source (stellar remnant) in the southwest protrusion of the supernova remnant G 315.4-2.30 (MSH 14-63, RCW 86) using the archival data of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The search was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Gvaramadze , A. A. Vikhlinin

We report on Chandra imaging observations of the Galactic Unidentified $\gamma$-ray source GEV J1809-2327, comparing the X-ray images with new VLA 1.46 GHz and 4.86 GHz maps. The X-ray images reveal a point source connected to a non-thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Timothy M. Braje , Roger W. Romani , Mallory S. E. Roberts , Nobuyuki Kawai

We report the discovery of a prominent nonthermal X-ray feature located near the Galactic center that we identify as an energetic pulsar wind nebula. This feature, G359.95-0.04, lies 1 lyr north of Sgr A* (in projection), is comet-like in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Q. D. Wang , F. J. Lu , E. V. Gotthelf

We communicate the detection of soft (20--200 keV) gamma-rays from the pulsar and pulsar wind nebula of PSR J1846-0258 and aim to identify the component of the system which is responsible for the gamma-ray emission. To pinpoint the source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. A. McBride , A. J. Dean , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , A. B. Hill , A. De Rosa , R. Landi , V. Sguera , A. Malizia

Context. The discovery of the unique source HESS J1507-622 in the very high energy (VHE) range (100 GeV-100 TeV) opened new possibilities to study the parent population of ultra-relativistic particles found in astrophysical sources and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 O. Tibolla , S. Kaufmann , K. Kosack

We have observed the young Galactic supernova remnant Kes 75 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This object is one of an increasing number of examples of a shell-type remnant with a central extended radio core harboring a pulsar. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Collins , E. V. Gotthelf , D. J. Helfand

We report on 0.3-10 keV X-ray observations by the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the fields of 22 sources that were discovered as hard X-ray (20-100 keV) sources by the INTEGRAL satellite (IGR sources). The purpose of the Chandra observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-05 John A. Tomsick , Sylvain Chaty , Jerome Rodriguez , Roland Walter , Philip Kaaret

We analyzed a deep {\it XMM-Newton} observation of the radio-quiet $\gamma$-ray PSR J2055+2539. The spectrum of the X-ray counterpart is non-thermal, with a photon index of $\Gamma$=2.36$\pm$0.14 (1$\sigma$ confidence). We detected X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Martino Marelli , Daniele Pizzocaro , Andrea De Luca , Fabio Gastaldello , Patrizia Caraveo , Pablo Saz Parkinson

We present results of observations in the optical to mid-infrared wavelengths of the X-ray source CXO J172337.5-373442, which was serendipitously discovered in the Chandra images and was found to have a fully resolved X-ray jet. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Bhaswati Mookerjea , Pietro Parisi , Sudip Bhattacharyya , Nicola Masetti , Thomas Kruehler , Jochen Greiner

Planetary nebulae (PNe) are an exciting addition to the zoo of X-ray sources. Recent Chandra and XMM-Newton observations have detected diffuse X-ray emission from shocked fast winds in PN interiors as well as bow-shocks of fast collimated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Guerrero , Y. -H. Chu , R. A. Gruendl