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The central part of the massive star-forming region Cepheus A contains several radio sources which indicate multiple outflow phenomena, yet the driving sources of the individual outflows have not been identified. We present a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. C. Schneider , H. M. Guenther , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

We report the discovery of X-rays from both components of Cepheus A, East and West, with the XMM-Newton Observatory. HH 168 joins the ranks of other energetic Herbig Haro objects that are sources of T~10^6 K X-ray emission. The HH 168…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven H. Pravdo , Yohko Tsuboi

We report detections of X-rays from HH 80 and HH 81 with the ACIS instrument on the Chandra X-ray Observatory. These are among the most luminous HH sources in the optical and they are now the most luminous known in X-rays. These X-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven H. Pravdo , Yohko Tsuboi , Yoshitomo Maeda

New high resolution 6 cm observations have been made on Cepheus A using MERLIN, and combined with new VLA observations at 3.7 cm. Angular resolution with the latter was 200 mas, and with MERLIN was 60 mas, except for isolated unresolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 V. A. Hughes , R. J. Cohen , S. Garrington

We present (sub)millimeter line and continuum observations in a mosaicing mode of the massive star forming region Cepheus A East made with the Submillimeter Array (SMA). Our mosaic covers a total area of about 3$'$ $\times$ 12$'$ centered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-05-20 Luis A. Zapata , Manuel Fernandez-Lopez , Salvador Curiel , Nimesh Patel , Luis F. Rodriguez

We report the detection of hard X-ray emission (>2 keV) from a number of point sources associated with the very young massive star-forming region IRAS 19410+2336. The X-ray emission is detected from several sources located around the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Beuther , J. Kerp , T. Preibisch , T. Stanke , P. Schilke

Cepheus B (Cep B) molecular cloud and a portion of the nearby Cep OB3b OB association, one of the most active regions of star formation within 1 kpc, has been observed with the ACIS detector on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We detect…

A very sensitive X-ray investigation of the giant HII region N11 in the LMC was performed using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The 300ks observation reveals X-ray sources with luminosities down to 10^32 erg/s, increasing by more than a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Yael Naze , Q. Daniel Wang , You-Hua Chu , Robert Gruendl , Lida Oskinova

We report the Chandra/ACIS-S detection of more than 20 ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs, L_{0.5-10 keV} >~ 3 x 10^{39} ergs/sec) in the Cartwheel collisional ring galaxy system, of which over a dozen are located in the outer active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu Gao , Q. Daniel Wang , P. N. Appleton , Ray A. Lucas

We report the appearance of a new radio source at a projected offset of 460 pc from the nucleus of Cygnus A. The flux density of the source (which we designate Cygnus A-2) rose from an upper limit of <0.5 mJy in 1989 to 4 mJy in 2016…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-02 Daniel A. Perley , Richard A. Perley , Vivek Dhawan , Christopher L. Carilli

We present a $40\,$ks Chandra observation of the IRAS$\,$20126+4104 core region. In the inner $6^{\prime\prime}$ two X-ray sources were detected, which are coincident with the radio jet source I20S and the variable radio source I20Var. No…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Crystal Nicole Anderson , Peter Hofner , Debra Shepherd , Michelle Creech-Eakman

We aim at clarifying the nature of the emission of two spatially related unidentified X-ray sources detected with XMM-Newton telescope at intermediate-low Galactic latitude. Observations reveal a point-like source aligned with elongated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-25 Federico García , Jorge A. Combi , María C. Medina , Gustavo E. Romero

We present the results of our investigation, using a Chandra X-ray observation, into the stellar population of the massive star formation region G5.89-0.39, and its potential connection to the coincident TeV gamma-ray source HESSJ1800-240B.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-28 E. J. Hampton , G. Rowell , W. Hofmann , D. Horns , Y. Uchiyama , S. Wagner

Suzaku deep observations have discovered two highly significant nonthermal X-ray sources, Suzaku J1804$-$2142 (Src 1) and Suzaku J1804$-$2140 (Src 2), positionally coincident with the unidentified TeV $\gamma$-ray source, HESS J1804$-$216.…

We report the Chandra detection of hard X-ray emission from the Welch ring in W49A, an organized structure of ultra-compact (UC) HII regions containing a dozen nascent early-type stars. Two UC HII regions are associated with hard X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Tsujimoto , T. Hosokawa , E. D. Feigelson , K. V. Getman , P. S. Broos

We present the first X-ray observation at sub-arcsecond resolution of the high-redshift ($z=6.18$) radio-loud quasar CFHQS J142952+544717 (J1429). The ~100 net-count 0.3-7 keV spectrum obtained from $\sim 30$ ksec Chandra exposure is best…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 G. Migliori , A. Siemiginowska , M. Sobolewska , C. C. Cheung , Ł. Stawarz , D. Schwartz , B. Snios , A. Saxena , V. Kashyap

We present high-resolution X-ray images taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the field that contains the unidentified TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1804-216. A total of eleven discrete sources were detected with a posteriori…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei Cui , Alexander Konopelko

The imaging atmospheric Cherenkov array H.E.S.S. recently discovered an extended source in the 0.4$-$10 TeV energy range, HESS J1303-631. We obtained a 5 ks observation with the ACIS-I array on the Chandra X-ray observatory that does not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Mukherjee , J. P. Halpern

We present results from the zeroth-order imaging of a Chandra HETGS observation of the nearby Seyfert 2 galaxy Circinus. Twelve X-ray sources were detected in the ACIS-S image of the galaxy, embedded in diffuse X-ray emission. The latter…

Chandra has resolved the starburst nuclear region of the face-on grand-design spiral M83. Eighty-one point sources are detected above 3.5 sigma in the ACIS S3 image, and 15 of them are within the inner 16-arcsec region of the galaxy. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Soria , Kinwah Wu
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