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The unprecedented sensitivity of the Spitzer Space Telescope has enabled us for the first time to detect a large sample of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies (BCDs), which are intrinsically faint in the infrared. In the present paper we present a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-19 Yanling Wu , V. Charmandaris , J. R. Houck , J. Bernard-Salas , V. Lebouteiller

Inspired by the excess soft X-ray emission recently detected in Green Pea galaxies, we model the soft X-ray emission (0.5 - 2.0 keV) of hot gas from star cluster winds. By combining individual star clusters, we estimate the soft X-ray…

We present a measurement of the X-ray spectrum of the luminous X-ray binary in I Zw 18, the blue compact dwarf galaxy with the lowest known metallicity. We find the highest flux yet observed, corresponding to an intrinsic luminosity near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Philip Kaaret , Hua Feng

We present an analysis of the diffuse X-ray emission in 19 compact groups of galaxies (CGs) observed with Chandra. The hottest, most X-ray luminous CGs agree well with the galaxy cluster X-ray scaling relations in $L_X-T$ and $L_X-\sigma$,…

The apparent lack of cold molecular gas in blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxies is at variance with their intense star-formation episode. The CO molecule, often used a tracer of H2 through a conversion function, is selectively photodissociated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Vianney Lebouteiller

This is the second paper in a series studying the star formation rates, stellar components, metallicities, and star formation histories and evolution of a sample of blue compact galaxies. We analyzed spectral properties of 97 blue compact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 X. Kong , F. Z. Cheng , A. Weiss , S. Charlot

We report the results of a deep Chandra survey of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We find five X-ray sources with L_X of at least 6*10^33 ergs/sec with optical counterparts establishing them as members of Sculptor. These X-ray…

Thanks to the high sensitivity of the instruments on board the XMM-Newton and Chandra satellites, it has become possible to explore the properties of the X-ray emission from hot subdwarfs. The small but growing sample of hot subdwarfs…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Sandro Mereghetti , Nicola La Palombara

(abridged) We present an analysis of Chandra X-ray observations of a sample of eight dwarf starburst galaxies (I Zw 18, VII Zw 403, NGC 1569, NGC 3077, NGC 4214, NGC 4449, NGC 5253, and He 2-10). Extended, diffuse X-ray emission is detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juergen Ott , Fabian Walter , Elias Brinks

X-ray observations of the Galactic X-ray binaries (XRB) revealed numerous highly ionized metal absorption lines. However, it is unclear whether such lines are produced by the hot interstellar medium (ISM) or the circumstellar medium (CSM)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Yang Luo , Taotao Fang

New infrared and millimeter observations from Keck, Palomar, ISO, and OVRO and archival data from the NRAO VLA and IRAS are presented for the low metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS 0335-052. Mid-infrared imaging shows this young…

X-ray binaries, powered by black holes, neutron stars, or white dwarfs accreting matter from a companion star, are among the brightest beacons in galaxies, outshining the Sun by a factor of millions. Most emit primarily above 0.3 keV in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-09 Mustafa Muhibullah , Jimmy A. Irwin , R. Di Stefano

(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

Context: We use the first XMM serendipitous source catalogue (1XMM) to compile a sample of normal X-ray galaxies Aims: We seek to expand the database of X-ray selected normal galaxies at intermediate redshifts and examine the relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Rovilos , I. Georgantopoulos , P. Tzanavaris , M. Pracy , M. Whiting , D. Woods , C. Goudis

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

Although the environments of star and planet formation are thermodynamically cold, substantial X-ray emission from 10-100 MK plasmas is present. In low mass pre-main sequence stars, X-rays are produced by violent magnetic reconnection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Feigelson , Leisa Townsley , Manuel Gudel , Keivan Stassun

We present new Chandra constraints on the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) of X-ray binary (XRB) populations, and their scaling relations, for a sample of 38 nearby galaxies (D = 3.4-29 Mpc). Our galaxy sample is drawn primarily from the…

The interstellar medium of galaxies, with temperatures reaching several million degrees, provides a pivotal perspective for understanding the physical and chemical properties of star formation, galactic evolution, and their associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-24 Chunyi Zhang , Junfeng Wang

Primordial stars are expected to be very massive and hot, producing copious amounts of hard ionizing radiation. The best place to study hard ionizing radiation in the local universe is in very metal-deficient Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 T. X. Thuan , Y. I. Izotov

Dwarf highly star-forming galaxies (SFGs) dominated the early Universe and are considered the main driver of its reionization. However, direct observations of these distant galaxies are mainly confined to rest-frame ultraviolet and visible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 K. Kouroumpatzakis , J. Svoboda , A. Zezas , A. Borkar , E. Kyritsis , P. G. Boorman , C. Daoutis , B. Adamcová , R. Grossová