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A deep 75 ks {\it Chandra} ACIS--I data of NGC 2024 was analyzed, aiming at a search for diffuse X-ray emission in this one of the most nearby (415 pc) massive star-forming regions. After removing point sources, an extended emission was…

The origin of the Galactic center diffuse X-ray emission (GCDX) is still under intense investigation. We have found a clear excess in a longitudinal GCDX profile over a stellar number density profile in the nuclear bulge region, suggesting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Shogo Nishiyama , Kazuki Yasui , Tetsuya Nagata , Tatsuhito Yoshikawa , Hideki Uchiyama , Motohide Tamura

We present a short (~3.6 ks) Chandra/HRC-I observation of the globular cluster Terzan 1. This cluster is known to contain the bright neutron star low-mass X-ray binary X 1732-304 which was active during the 1980's and most of the 1990's.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rudy Wijnands , Craig O. Heinke , Jonathan E. Grindlay

Globular clusters are large collections of old stars that are orbiting the core of a galaxy. Our Milky Way Galaxy has about 160 known clusters, with perhaps more to be discovered. We first accumulated the necessary parameters for 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-22 Hambeleleni Ndiyavala , Christo Venter , Petrus Paulus Kruger

We report the first detection of X-ray emission from the Quintuplet star cluster and compare its X-ray emission to that of the Arches star cluster. Four point sources are significantly detected near the core of the Quintuplet cluster with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Law , F. Yusef-Zadeh

The diffuse X-ray background (DXB) emission near the Galactic plane ($l,b \sim 25.6^{\circ},0.78^{\circ}$) has been observed with $ASCA$. The observed region is toward a Galactic molecular cloud which was recently reported to cast a deep…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sangwook Park , Ken Ebisawa

We report the first Chandra detection of emission out to the virial radius in the cluster Abell 1835 at z=0.253. Our analysis of the soft X-ray surface brightness shows that emission is present out to a radial distance of 10 arcmin or 2.4…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Bonamente , D. Landry , B. Maughan , P. Giles , M. Joy , J. Nevalainen

We report on the quiescent X-ray properties of the recently discovered transiently accreting 11 Hz X-ray pulsar in the globular cluster Terzan 5. Using two archival Chandra observations, we demonstrate that the quiescent spectrum of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Degenaar , R. Wijnands

We have spatially and spectrally resolved the sources of X-ray emission from the X-ray faint S0 galaxy NGC 1553 using an observation from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The majority (70%) of the emission in the 0.3 - 10.0 keV band is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. L. Blanton , C. L. Sarazin , J. A. Irwin

We present the deepest and highest-resolution radio continuum imaging of the Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5, one of the most crowded locations in the radio sky. In these new 2$-$4 GHz Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array images, we detect 38…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-12 Ryan Urquhart , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk , Scott M. Ransom , Craig O. Heinke , Arash Bahramian , Thomas J. Maccarone

We have analyzed Chandra and Suzaku observations of the globular cluster Terzan 6, made when the recurrent transient GRS 1747-312 was in quiescence. Our analysis reveals the presence of a second eclipsing, bursting neutron-star low-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Maureen van den Berg , Jeroen Homan , Craig O. Heinke , David A. Pooley , Rudy Wijnands , Arash Bahramian , James C. A. Miller-Jones

Identification of Abell 3120 as a galaxy cluster has recently been questioned with alternative suggestions including: a fossil remnant of a group merger, non-thermal emission from a radio galaxy, and projected emission from of a filamentary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mark Henriksen , Alexis Finoguenov

We report the detection of both soft and hard excess X-ray emission in the cluster of galaxies A 2199, based upon spatially resolved spectroscopy with data from the BeppoSAX, EUVE and ROSAT missions. The excess emission is visible at radii…

We report the first localization of diffuse, non-thermal, X-ray emission from a nearby galaxy cluster. Using Chandra data, we have isolated a diffuse non-thermal X-ray component with a photon index, Gamma_ X = 2.21 +0.14 -0.15 and a flux of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel S. Hudson , Mark J. Henriksen

We report the detection of extended X-ray emission around several powerful 3CR quasars with redshifts out to 0.73. The ROSAT HRI images of the quasars have been corrected for spacecraft wobble and compared with an empirical point-spread…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. S. Crawford , I. Lehmann , A. C. Fabian , M. N. Bremer , G. Hasinger

We observed the nearby, low-density globular cluster M71 (NGC 6838) with the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study its faint X-ray populations. Five X-ray sources were found inside the cluster core radius, including the known eclipsing binary…

We present a 1.42 square degree mosaic of diffuse X-ray emission in the Great Nebula in Carina from the Chandra X-ray Observatory Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer camera. After removing >14,000 X-ray point sources from the field, we smooth…

(abridged) We present a catalog of 2357 point sources detected during 590 ks of Chandra observations of the 17-by-17 arcminute field around Sgr A*. This field encompasses a physical area of 40 by 40 pc at a distance of 8 kpc. The…

Models for the origin of the hard X-ray background have suggested that sources with the most accretion activity lie hidden in highly obscured AGN. We report on our study of hard, serendipitous sources in the fields of Chandra clusters with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Gandhi , A. C. Fabian , C. S. Crawford

Two sensitive Chandra X-ray observations of the heavily-reddened galactic starburst cluster Westerlund 1 in May and June 2005 detected a previously unknown X-ray pulsar (CXO J164710.20-455217). Its slow 10.6 s pulsations, moderate X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. L. Skinner , R. Perna , S. A. Zhekov