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The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was used to image the collisional ring galaxy Arp 147 for 42 ks. We detect 9 X-ray sources with luminosities in the range of 1.4 - 7 x 10^{39} ergs/sec in or near the blue knots of star formation associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Rappaport , A. Levine , D. Pooley , B. Steinhorn

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of the Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 55 based on two contiguous XMM-Newton observations. We detect a total of 137 X-ray sources in the field of view, 42 of which are located within the optical…

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

We present a deep search for and analysis of X-ray sources in a sample of dwarf galaxies (M$_{r}$ < -15.5 mag) located within twelve galaxy clusters from the Kapteyn IAC WEAVE INT Cluster Survey (KIWICS) of photometric observations in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-09 Şeyda Şen , Ersin Göğüş , Reynier F. Peletier , Nelvy Choque-Challapa , Amirnezam Amiri

We present a comprehensive X-ray point source catalog of NGC 404 obtained as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. A new, 97 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of NGC 404 was combined with archival observations for a total exposure of ~123…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Binder , B. F. Williams , M. Eracleous , T. J. Gaetz , A. K. H. Kong , E. D. Skillman , D. R. Weisz

In this paper we investigate the X-ray spectra and X-ray spectral variability of compact X-ray sources for 3 Chandra observations of the Local Group galaxy M33. The observations are centered on the nucleus and the star forming region NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. -J. Grimm , J. McDowell , A. Zezas , D. -W. Kim , G. Fabbiano

We searched for infrared counterparts to the cluster of X-ray point sources discovered by Chandra in the Galactic Center Region (GCR). While the sources could be white dwarfs, neutron stars, or black holes accreting from stellar companions,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 S. Laycock , J. Grindlay , M. van den Berg , P. Zhao , J. Hong , X. Koenig , E. M. Schlegel , S. E. Persson

We present Chandra studies of the X-ray binary (XRB) populations in the bulge and ring regions of the ring galaxy NGC 1291. We detect 169 X-ray point sources in the galaxy, 75 in the bulge and 71 in the ring, utilizing the four available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Luo , G. Fabbiano , T. Fragos , D. -W. Kim , K. Belczynski , N. J. Brassington , S. Pellegrini , P. Tzanavaris , Junfeng Wang , A. Zezas

We have observed two low concentration Galactic globular clusters with the X-ray observatory XMM-Newton. We detect 47 faint X-ray sources in the direction of M 55 and 62 in the field of view of NGC 3201. Using the statistical Log N-Log S…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Webb , P. J. Wheatley , D. Barret

The Chandra X-ray Observatory has now discovered nearly 10,000 X-ray point sources in the 2 x 0.8 degree region around the Galactic Center (Muno 2009). The sources are likely to be a population of accreting binaries in the Galactic Center,…

We present results from a study of the non-nuclear discrete sources in a sample of three nearby spiral galaxies (NGC 4395, NGC 4736, and NGC 4258) based on XMM-Newton archival data supplemented with Chandra data for spectral and timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Akyuz , S. Kayaci , H. Avdan , M. E. Ozel , E. Sonbas , S. Balman

We report the X-ray data analysis of two transient ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs, hereafter X1 and X2) located in the nearby galaxy NGC 7090. While they were not detected in the 2004 XMM-Newton and 2005 Chandra observations, their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Zhu Liu , P. T. O'Brien , J. P. Osborne , P. A. Evans , K. L. Page

New HST observations show that the bright X-ray source in the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1073 is located near a ring of recent star formation with an age of 8-16 Myr. This strengthens the association of X-ray sources in spiral galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Philip Kaaret

We present the properties of the discrete X-ray sources detected in our monitoring program of the globular cluster (GC) rich elliptical galaxy, NGC 4278, observed with Chandra ACIS-S in six separate pointings, resulting in a co-added…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. J. Brassington , G. Fabbiano , D. -W. Kim , A. Zezas , S. Zepf , A. Kundu , L. Angelini , R. L. Davies , J. Gallagher , V. Kalogera , T. Fragos , A. R. King , S. Pellegrini , G. Trinchieri

We analyze data from five Chandra observations of the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and from three Chandra observations of the irregular/spiral interacting galaxy pair NGC 4485/4490, with an emphasis on investigating the long-term variability…

We present results of a Chandra survey of the ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULX) in 13 normal galaxies, in which we combine source detection with X-ray flux measurement. 22 ULX were detected, i.e. with L_x > 1 x 10^{39} erg s^{-1} (L_10),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 P. J. Humphrey , G. Fabbiano , M. Elvis , M. J. Church , M. Balucinska-Church

We present the first study of the X-ray population of the intermediate-age rich open cluster NGC 6819 using the XMM-Newton Observatory. In the past decade, Chandra X-ray observations have shown a relationship between the X-ray population of…

We present the results of our search for optical counterparts to high-mass X-ray transient sources discovered by various X-ray missions. We obtained CCD images of the X-ray fields through BVR and Halpha filters in order to identify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Reig , I. Negueruela , G. Papamastorakis , A. Manousakis , T. Kougentakis

Archival {\it XMM-Newton}, {\it Chandra} and {\it Hubble Space Telescope (HST)} data have been used to study the X-ray and optical properties of two candidate ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in NGC\,4536. In order to search for potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 H. Avdan , E. Sonbas , K. S. Dhuga , A. Vinokurov , E. Göğüş , S. Avdan , Y. N. Solovyeva , A. E. Kostenkov , E. S. Shablovinskaya , D. Goktas

We present Chandra observations of two star-forming galaxies (M82 and the Antennae) and three starburst/AGN composite galaxies (NGC1808, NGC6240, NGC7331). In both star-forming galaxies we detect a large number of sources with diverse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Zezas , G. Fabbiano , A. Prestwich , M. Ward , S. Murray

We present 23 candidate X-ray binaries with luminosities down to 1.8x10^36 erg/s, in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4449, from observations totaling 105 ksec taken with the ACIS-S instrument on the Chandra Space Telescope. We determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Blagoy Rangelov , Andrea H. Prestwich , Rupali Chandar