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The Galactic center (GC) holds the closest-to-Earth supermassive black hole (SMBH), which makes it the best laboratory to study the close environment of extremely massive compact objects. Polarimetry is sensitive to geometry of the source,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-05 F. Marin , V. Karas , D. Kunneriath , F. Muleri , P. Soffitta

We present a catalogue of 107 point-like X-ray sources derived from a systematic analysis of all the ROSAT PSPC observations of the galactic center region performed in 1992-1993. Besides SgrA*, the massive black hole at the galactic center,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Sidoli , T. Belloni , S. Mereghetti

The origin of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) is unknown even though they have traditionally been connected to supernovae based on energetic arguments. In the past decades, Galactic black holes in X-ray binaries (BHXBs) have been proposed as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-02 Dimitrios Kantzas , Francesca Calore

The \textit{Swift} Deep Galactic Plane Survey is a \textit{Swift} Key Project consisting of 380 tiled pointings covering 40 deg$^{2}$ of the Galactic Plane between longitude $10$\,$<$\,$|l|$\,$<$\,$30$ deg and latitude $|b|$\,$<$\,$0.5$…

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

Observations of Galactic black hole sources are traditionally done in the classical X-ray range (2 -- 10 keV) due to sensitivity constraints. Most of the accretion power, however, is radiated above 10 keV and the study of these sources in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-02 A. R. Rao

The Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey (CGS) is a long-term program to investigate the photometric and spectroscopic properties of a statistically complete sample of 605 bright (B_T < 12.9 mag), southern (Dec. < 0) galaxies using the facilities…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Luis C. Ho , Zhao-Yu Li , Aaron J. Barth , Marc S. Seigar , Chien Y. Peng

We obtain total galaxy X-ray luminosities, $L_X$, originating from individually detected point sources in a sample of 47 galaxies in 15 compact groups of galaxies (CGs). For the great majority of our galaxies, we find that the detected…

We report a detailed spectral analysis of the population of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) detected in the elliptical galaxy NGC~4278 with Chandra. Seven luminous sources were studied individually, four in globular clusters (GCs), and…

This paper is devoted to determining the nature of the hard X-ray source IGR J17463-2854 located toward the Galactic bulge. Using data from the INTEGRAL and Chandra X-ray observatories, we show that five point X-ray sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 D. I. Karasev , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

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 study a Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-S observation of the Galactic globular clusterM12. With a 26 ks exposure time, we detect 6 X-ray sources inside the half-mass radius (2.16 arcminutes) of which two are inside the core radius (0.72…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Ting-Ni Lu , Albert K. H. Kong , Cees Bassa , Frank Verbunt , Walter H. G. Lewin , Scott F. Anderson , David Pooley

Galactic binaries with orbital periods less than 1 hour are strong gravitational wave sources in the mHz regime, ideal for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). At least several hundred, maybe up to a thousand of those binaries are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Thomas Kupfer , Camilla Danielski , Poshak Gandhi , Thomas J. Maccarone , Gijs Nelemans , Valeriya Korol , Liliana Rivera Sandoval

We present a study of discrete X-ray sources in and around the bulge-dominated, massive Sa galaxy, Sombrero (M104), based on new and archival Chandra observations with a total exposure of ~200 ks. With a detection limit of L_X = 1E37 erg/s…

We exploit XMM-Newton archival data in a study of the extended X-ray emission emanating from the Galactic Centre (GC) region. EPIC-pn and EPIC-MOS observations, with a total exposure approaching 0.5 and 1 Ms respectively, were used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 V. Heard , R. S. Warwick

The Century Survey Galactic Halo Project is a photometric and spectroscopic survey from which we select relatively blue stars (V-R<0.30 mag) as probes of the Milky Way halo. The Survey strip spans the range of Galactic latitude 35<b<88 deg,…

We present the results of a Chandra/HST study of the point sources of the NGC 4472. We identify 144 X-ray sources, 72 with HST matches. The optical data show 1102 sources, 829 with globular cluster colors. Thirty matches are found - likely…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas J. Maccarone , Arunav Kundu , Stephen E. Zepf

We explore large-scale cosmic structure using the spatial distribution of 542 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) having accurately measured positions and spectroscopic redshifts. Prominent cosmological clusters are identified in both the northern and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-19 Istvan Horvath , Zsolt Bagoly , Lajos G. Balazs , Jon Hakkila , Zsuzsa Horvath , Andras Peter Joo , Sandor Pinter , L. Viktor Tóth , Peter Veres , Istvan I. Racz

We explore the population of mass-transferring binaries ejected from globular clusters (GCs) with both black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) accretors. We use a set of 137 fully evolved globular cluster models which span a large range in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-15 Kyle Kremer , Sourav Chatterjee , Carl L. Rodriguez , Frederic A. Rasio

The NuSTAR serendipitous survey has already uncovered a large number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), providing new information about the composition of the Cosmic X-ray Background. For the AGN off the Galactic plane, it has been possible…