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Within 40 years of the detection of the first extrasolar X-ray source in 1962,NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has achieved an increase in sensitivity of 10 orders of magnitude, comparable to the gain in going from naked-eye observations to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-02 H Tananbaum , M C Weisskopf , W Tucker , B Wilkes , P Edmonds

[Abridged] The central field of the Andromeda galaxy (M 31) has been monitored, using the Chandra HRC-I detector (about 0.1-10 keV energy range) from 2006 to 2012 with the main aim to detect X-rays from optical novae. We present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Hofmann , W. Pietsch , M. Henze , F. Haberl , R. Sturm , M. Della Valle , D. H. Hartmann , D. Hatzidimitriou

We present the catalog of optical and infrared counterparts of the Chandra COSMOS-Legacy Survey, a 4.6 Ms Chandra program on the 2.2 square degrees of the COSMOS field, combination of 56 new overlapping observations obtained in Cycle 14…

We present comprehensive X-ray point source catalogs of NGC~55, NGC~2403, and NGC~4214 as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. The combined archival observations have effective exposure times of 56.5 ks, 190 ks, and 79 ks for NGC~55,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 B. Binder , B. F. Williams , M. Eracleous , P. P. Plucinsky , T. J. Gaetz , S. F. Anderson , E. D. Skillman , J. J. Dalcanton , A. K. H. Kong , D. R. Weisz

We search for unresolved X-ray emission from lensed sources in the FOV of 11 CLASH clusters with Chandra data. We consider the solid angle in the lens plane corresponding to a magnification $\mu>1.5$, that amounts to a total of ~100…

This study presents the final source catalog of the Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33). With a total exposure time of 1.4 Ms, ChASeM33 covers ~70% of the D25 isophote (R\approx4kpc) of M33 and provides the deepest, most complete, and…

Over the past 13 years, the Chandra X-ray Observatory's ability to provide high resolution X-ray images and spectra have established it as one of the most versatile and powerful tools for astrophysical research in the 21st century. Chandra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Martin C. Weisskopf

A Chandra ACIS-S imaging observation of the nearby galaxy M81 (NGC 3031) reveals 9 luminous soft X-ray sources. The local environments, X-ray spectral properties, and X-ray light curves of the sources are presented and discussed in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Douglas Swartz , Kajal Ghosh , Valery Suleimanov , Allyn Tennant , Kinwah Wu

We present our first results on field X-ray sources detected in a deep, 184.7 ks observation with the ACIS-I camera on Chandra. The observations target the Lynx field of SPICES, and contains three known X-ray-emitting clusters out to…

We present the first results of a wide area X-ray survey within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82, a 300 deg$^2$ region of the sky with a substantial investment in multi-wavelength coverage. We analyzed archival {\it Chandra}…

We present the Swift X-ray Cluster Survey (SWXCS) catalog obtained using archival data from the X-ray telescope (XRT) on board the Swift satellite acquired from 2005 to 2012, extending the first release of the SWXCS. The catalog provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-16 Teng Liu , Paolo Tozzi , Elena Tundo , Alberto Moretti , Piero Rosati , Jun-Xian Wang , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Sergio Campana , Mauro Giavalisco

We have cross-correlated X-ray catalogs derived from archival Chandra ACIS observations with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 2 (DR2) galaxy catalog to form a sample of 42 serendipitously X-ray detected galaxies over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Hornschemeier , T. M. Heckman , A. F. Ptak , C. A. Tremonti , E. J. M. Colbert

Using the Chandra ACIS-I instruments, we have carried out the deepest X-ray observation on a typical Galactic plane region at l 28.5 deg, where no discrete X-ray sources have been known previously. We have detected, as well as strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 K. Ebisawa , A. Bamba , H. Kaneda , Y. Maeda , A. Paizis , G. Sato , S. Yamauchi

We present results from the first near-IR imaging of the weak X-ray sources discovered in the Chandra/ACIS-I survey (Wang et al. 2002) towards the Galactic Centre (GC). These ~800 discrete sources, which contribute significantly to the GC…

The next generation of telescopes will acquire terabytes of image data on a nightly basis. Collectively, these large images will contain billions of interesting objects, which astronomers call sources. The astronomers' task is to construct…

Applications · Statistics 2009-10-29 David A. Friedenberg , Christopher R. Genovese

A deep (98.2 ks) Chandra Cycle-1 observation has revealed a wealth of discrete X-ray sources as well as diffuse emission in the nearby face-on spiral galaxy M101. From this rich dataset we have created a catalog of the 110 sources from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. D. Pence , S. L. Snowden , K. Mukai , K. D. Kuntz

Six x-ray point sources, with luminosities of $4 \times 10^{38} - 2 \times 10^{39} \rm ergs s^{-1}$ in the 0.4--7 keV band, were detected in Chandra observations of the spiral galaxy M100. One source is identified with supernova SN 1979C…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Philip Kaaret

The COSMOS-Legacy survey is a 4.6 Ms Chandra program that has imaged 2.2 deg$^2$ of the COSMOS field with an effective exposure of $\simeq$160 ks over the central 1.5 deg$^2$ and of $\simeq$80 ks in the remaining area. The survey is the…

The automatic classification of X-ray detections is a necessary step in extracting astrophysical information from compiled catalogs of astrophysical sources. Classification is useful for the study of individual objects, statistics for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Víctor Samuel Pérez-Díaz , Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza , Alexander Caicedo , Raffaele D'Abrusco

We present a routinized and reliable method to obtain source catalogs from the $\textit{Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array}$ ($\textit{NuSTAR}$) extragalactic surveys of the Extended $\textit{Chandra}$ Deep Field-South (E-CDF-S) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-29 Tianyi Zhang , Yongquan Xue