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We have carried out a Chandra observation of the globular cluster M54. We detected 7 sources located within the half-mass radius of M54, at a flux limit of 1.5x10^-15 erg/s/cm in the 0.3-8 keV energy band. The spatial distribution and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gavin Ramsay , Kinwah Wu

(abridged) A Chandra ACIS S3 observation of the X-ray faint elliptical galaxy NGC 4697 resolves much of the X-ray emission (61% of the counts from within one effective radius) into 90 point sources, of which ~80 are low mass X-ray binaries…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Craig L. Sarazin , Jimmy A. Irwin , Joel N. Bregman

We present a study of strong cool core, highly-luminous (most with L_x > 10^(45) erg/s), clusters of galaxies in which the mean jet power of the central active galactic nucleus must be very high yet no central point X-ray source is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Hlavacek-Larrondo , A. Fabian

(abridged) We present an analysis of Chandra X-ray observations of a sample of eight dwarf starburst galaxies (I Zw 18, VII Zw 403, NGC 1569, NGC 3077, NGC 4214, NGC 4449, NGC 5253, and He 2-10). Extended, diffuse X-ray emission is detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juergen Ott , Fabian Walter , Elias Brinks

We present the first high-spatial-resolution X-ray images of two high-mass star forming regions, the Omega Nebula (M 17) and the Rosette Nebula (NGC 2237--2246), obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. K. Townsley , E. D. Feigelson , T. Montmerle , P. S. Broos , Y. -H. Chu , G. P. Garmire

We report the results of a deep search for faint Chandra X-ray sources, radio sources, and optical counterparts in the nearby, core-collapsed globular cluster, NGC 6752. We combined new and archival Chandra imaging to detect 51 X-ray…

By analyzing the Chandra ACIS S3 data we studied the X-ray properties of the low-mass and high-mass X-ray binary populations in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 5055. A total of 43 X-ray point sources were detected within the 2 effective radii,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Luo , Jiyao Chen , Zhongli Zhang , Yu Wang , Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu

By combining the REFLEX and NORAS cluster datasets with the NVSS radio catalogue, we obtain a sample of 145, z<0.3, X-ray selected clusters brighter than 3 10^(-12) erg/s/cm^2 that show a central radio emission above 3 mJy. For virial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 M. Magliocchetti , M. Bruggen

We report the results of a 50 ks Chandra observation of the recently discovered radio object G141.2+5.0, presumed to be a pulsar-wind nebula. We find a moderately bright unresolved X-ray source which we designate CXOU J033712.8 615302…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski

We report the discovery of extended X-ray emission within the young star cluster NGC 602 in the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on observations obtained with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. X-ray emission is detected from the…

We have obtained the first broad-band X-ray spectra of the nearby compact elliptical galaxy M32 by using the ASCA satellite. The extracted spectra and X-ray luminosity are consistent with the properties of the hard spectral component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Loewenstein , K. Hayashida , T. Toneri , D. S. Davis

The identity of the persistent EGRET sources in the Galactic plane is largely a mystery. For one of these, 3EG J2227+6122, our complete census of X-ray and radio sources in its error circle reveals a remarkable superposition of an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. P. Halpern , E. V. Gotthelf , K. M. Leighly , D. J. Helfand

We present the first high-resolution, X-ray image of the circumnuclear regions of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3516, using the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO). All three of the CXO observations reported were performed with one of the two…

We have studied the X-ray point source population of Centaurus A (NGC 5128) using data from four archival CHANDRA observations. We detected 272 point-like X-ray sources within a radius of 10 arcmin from the centre. Approximately half of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Voss , M. Gilfanov

The spectra of many X-ray pulsars show, in addition to a power law, a low-energy component that has often been modeled as a blackbody with kT ~ 0.1 keV. However the physical origin of this soft excess has remained a mystery. We examine a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ryan C. Hickox , Ramesh Narayan , Timothy R. Kallman

The core of the galactic globular cluster M13 (NGC 6205) has been observed with WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope through visual, blue and mid- and far-UV filters in a programme devoted to study the UV population in a sample of Galactic…

We present a search for nuclear X-ray emission in the brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs) of a sample of groups and clusters of galaxies extracted from the Chandra archive. The exquisite angular resolution of Chandra allows us to obtain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-21 Lilan Yang , Paolo Tozzi , Heng Yu , Elisabeta Lusso , Massimo Gaspari , Roberto Gilli , Emanuele Nardini , Guido Risaliti

We report the discovery of an unusual source of extended X-ray emission CXOU J184846.3-013040 (`The Stem') located on the outskirts of the globular cluster GLIMPSE-C01. No point-like source falls within the extended emission which has an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Mirabal

Detailed spectral analysis of the Galactic X-ray background emission, or the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission (GRXE), is presented. To study the origin of the emission, broad-band and high-quality GRXE spectra were produced from 18 pointing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Takayuki Yuasa , Kazuo Makishima , Kazuhiro Nakazawa

Globular clusters (GCs) are emerging as a new class of gamma-ray emitters, thanks to the data obtained from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. By now, eight GCs are known to emit gamma-rays at energies >100~MeV. Based on the stellar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-01 P. H. T. Tam , A. K. H. Kong , C. Y. Hui , K. S. Cheng , C. Li , T. -N. Lu