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Recent Chandra observations have revealed a large population of faint X-ray point sources in the Galactic Centre. The observed population consists of about 2000 faint sources in the luminosity range ~10^31-10^33 erg/s. The majority of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Ruiter , K. Belczynski , T. E. Harrison

Three different M31 disk fields, spanning a range of stellar populations, were observed by Chandra. We report the X-ray point source luminosity function (LF) of each region, and the LF of M31's globular clusters, and compare these with each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. K. H. Kong , R. Di Stefano , M. R. Garcia , J. Greiner

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

We present results from a study of 2-8 keV X-ray sources detected by the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) instrument on the Chandra X-ray Observatory in the field of the z=0.516 cluster CRSS J0030.5+2618. In our 63.5 arcmin^2 search…

In this paper we present the source list for 3 Chandra observations of the Local Group galaxy M33. The observations are centered on the nucleus and on the star forming region NGC 604. We detect a total of 261 sources in an area of \~0.2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. -J. Grimm , J. McDowell , A. Zezas , D. -W. Kim , G. Fabbiano

The ~1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North observation is used to study the extended X-ray sources in the region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N), yielding the most sensitive probe of extended X-ray emission at cosmological distances…

Using a spectral analysis of bright Chandra X-ray sources located in 27 nearby galaxies and maps of star-formation rate (SFR) and ISM surface densities for these galaxies, we constructed the intrinsic X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Sergey Sazonov , Ildar Khabibullin

{\it Chandra} Galactic Center Survey detected $\sim 800$ X-ray point-like sources in the $2^{\circ} \times 0.8^{\circ}$ sky region around the Galactic Center. In this paper, we study the spatial and luminosity distributions of these sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. F. Wu , S. N. Zhang , F. J. Lu , Y. K. Jin

Based on the archival data from the Chandra observations of nearby galaxies, we study different sub populations of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) - dynamically formed systems in globular clusters (GCs) and in the nucleus of M31 and…

We present an analysis of 15 Chandra observations of the nearby spiral galaxy M81 taken over the course of six weeks in May--July 2005. Each observation reaches a sensitivity of ~10^37 erg/s. With these observations and one previous deeper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 P. H. Sell , D. Pooley , A. Zezas , S. Heinz , J. Homan , W. H. G. Lewin

Summary of abstract: The existence of a new population of yet unrecognized x-ray sources has been often suggested to resolve some pecularities in the properties of the x-ray background (XRB), and has recently been indicated by an analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Eyal Maoz , Jonathan Grindlay

We present and discuss optical measurements of the faint end of the galaxy luminosity function down to M_R = -10 in five different local environments of varying galaxy density and morphological content. The environments we studied, in order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Neil Trentham , R. Brent Tully

We assess the contribution to the X-ray (above 2 keV) luminosity of the Milky Way from different classes of low-mass binary systems and single stars. We begin by using the RXTE Slew Survey of the sky at |b|>10 to construct an X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Sazonov , M. Revnivtsev , M. Gilfanov , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

As part of our campaign to determine the nature of the various source populations of the low-luminosity globular cluster X-ray sources, we have obtained a Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-S3 image of the globular cluster NGC 6440. We detect…

Using the XMM-Newton Slew Survey, we construct a hard-band selected sample of low-luminosity Galactic X-ray sources. Two source populations are represented, namely coronally-active stars and binaries (ASBs) and cataclysmic variables (CVs),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 R. S. Warwick

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

We analyzed deep Chandra observations of the Galactic plane region centered at l=28.55, b=-0.03 with the aim to obtain the best possible constraints on the contribution of weak point sources to the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov

We present the rest-frame Ultra-Violet (UV) galaxy luminosity function (LF) and luminosity density (LD) measurements in the far-UV (150 nm) wavelength, in the redshift range z = 0.6 - 1.2. The UV LF is derived using XMM-Newton Optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-08 M. Sharma , M. Page , A. A. Breeveld

We present a study of the faint-end of the X-ray Luminosity Function of Low Mass X-ray binaries in the Globular Cluster system of the cD galaxy NGC 1399 by performing a stacking experiment on 618 X-ray undetected GCs, in order to verify the…

With recent Chandra observations, at least 60% of the 2-10 keV background is now resolved into discrete sources. Here we present deep optical, NIR, submm, and 20 cm (radio) images, as well as high-quality optical spectra, of a complete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 A. J. Barger , L. L. Cowie , R. F. Mushotzky , E. A. Richards
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