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NGC 4472 is home to five ultraluminous X-ray sources hosted by globular clusters. These sources have been suggested as good black hole candidates in extragalactic globular clusters$-$ a highly sought after population that may provide…

The component black holes (BHs) observed in gravitational-wave (GW) binary black hole (BBH) events tend to be more massive and slower spinning than those observed in black hole X-ray binaries (BH-XRBs). Without modeling their evolutionary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Maya Fishbach , Vicky Kalogera

We report results of the Chandra deep imaging observation of the closest post-core collapse globular cluster, NGC 6397. Some 25 sources are detected within 2 arcmin of the cluster center of which about 20 are likely cluster members with L_x…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Grindlay , C. O. Heinke , P. D. Edmonds , S. S. Murray , A. M. Cool

(Abridged) We present the LogN-LogS and spatial distributions of X-ray point sources in seven Galactic Bulge (GB) fields within 4 deg from the Galactic Center (GC). We compare the properties of 1159 X-ray point sources discovered in our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Jaesub Hong , Maureen van den Berg , Jonathan E. Grindlay , Silas Laycock

We present the X-ray point source population in the nearby Virgo elliptical galaxy NGC 4636 from 3 Chandra/ACIS observations, totaling 193 ks, taken over 3 years. Using wavelet decomposition, we detect 318 point sources. Here, we use a…

X-ray sources in spiral galaxies can be approximately classified into bulge and disk populations. The bulge (or hard) sources have X-ray colors which are consistent with Low Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXB) but the the disk sources have softer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 A. H. Prestwich , R. E. Kilgard , F. Primini , J. C. McDowell , A. Zezas

Observations with BeppoSAX, RXTE and Chandra suggest that many of the bright X-ray sources in globular clusters have ultrashort binary periods. This is remarkable as such systems are not easily formed. With accurate optical astrometry of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank Verbunt

We present the X-ray source catalog for the Chandra monitoring observations of the elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649. The galaxy has been observed with Chandra ACIS-S3 in six separate pointings, reaching a total exposure of 299 ks. There are 501…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Luo , G. Fabbiano , J. Strader , D. -W. Kim , J. P. Brodie , T. Fragos , J. S. Gallagher , A. King , A. Zezas

In this paper we discuss the X-ray point source population of NGC 4472, an elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster. We used recent deep Chandra data combined with archival Chandra data to obtain a 380 ks exposure time. We find 238 X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 T. D. Joseph , T. J. Maccarone , R. P. Kraft , G. R. Sivakoff

The last comprehensive catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) was published about ten years ago. Since then new such systems were discovered, mainly by X-ray observations with Chandra and XMM-Newton. For…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-03 Frank Haberl , Richard Sturm

Recent X-ray and radio observations have identified a transient low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) located only 0.1 pc in projection from the Galactic center, CXOGC J174540.0-290031. In this paper, we report the detailed analysis of X-ray and…

We report the detection of six discrete, low-luminosity (Lx < 10^33 erg/s) X-ray sources, located within 12 arcsec of the center of the collapsed-core globular cluster M30 (NGC 7099), and a total of 13 sources within the half-mass radius,…

We present detailed constraints on the metallicity dependence of the high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) X-ray luminosity function (XLF). We analyze ~5 Ms of Chandra data for 55 actively star-forming galaxies at D < 30 Mpc with gas-phase…

We study spectral variability of 11 ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX) using archived XMM-Newton and Chandra observations. We use three models to describe the observed spectra: a power-law, a multi-colour disc (MCD) and a combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-20 Jari J. E. Kajava , Juri Poutanen

If millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are responsible for the excess gamma-ray emission observed from the region surrounding the Galactic Center, the same region should also contain a large population of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-15 Daryl Haggard , Craig Heinke , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

We present an investigation of the quiescent and transient X-ray binaries (XRBs) of the Galactic Center (GC). We extended our Chandra analysis of the non-thermal X-ray sources, located in the central parsec, from Hailey et al. (2018), using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Kaya Mori , Charles J. Hailey , Theo Y. E. Schutt , Shifra Mandel , Keri Heuer , Jonathan E. Grindlay , Jaesub Hong , Gabriele Ponti , John A. Tomsick

Using high resolution Chandra data, we report the presence of a weak X-ray point source coincident with the nucleus of NGC 4178, a late-type bulgeless disk galaxy known to have high ionization mid-infrared (mid-IR) lines typically…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Nathan Secrest , Shobita Satyapal , Mario Gliozzi , C. C. Cheung , Anil Seth , Torsten Boeker

We have conducted Chandra observations of ~2560 square arcmin (~131 kpc^2) of of M31, and find that the most luminous X-ray sources in our fields are in globular clusters (GCs). Of the 28 GC X-ray sources in our fields, 17 are newly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. Di Stefano , A. K. H. Kong , M. R. Garcia , P. Barmby , J. Greiner , S. S. Murray , F. A. Primini

NGC 4278, a Low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN), is generally classified as a low-ionization nuclear emission line region (LINER). Recently, it has been reported to be associated with a very high energy $\gamma$-ray source 1LHAASO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-13 Ji-Shun Lian , Jia-Xuan Li , Xin-Ke Hu , Ying-Ying Gan , Tan-Zheng Wu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Jin Zhang

A large number of X-ray sources in globular clusters of galaxies other than the Milky Way has been found with Chandra. We discuss three issues relating to these sources. The X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of the sources in globular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Walter H. G. Lewin , Frank Verbunt