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The $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT Collaboration recently presented a new catalog of gamma-ray sources located within the $40^{\circ} \times 40^{\circ}$ region around the Galactic Center~(Ajello et al. 2017) -- the Second Fermi Inner Galaxy (2FIG)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 Richard Bartels , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Nicholas L. Rodd , Benjamin R. Safdi , Tracy R. Slatyer

We present the discovery of seven X-ray emitting groups of galaxies selected as extended X-ray sources in the 200 ksec Chandra coverage of the All-wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS). In addition, we report on AGN…

The characterization of the internal structure of the superclusters of galaxies (walls, filaments and knots where the clusters are located) is paramount for understanding the formation of the Large Scale Structure and for outlining the…

Besides its major objective tuned to the detection of the stellar galactic population the Gaia mission experiment will also observe a large number of galaxies. In this work we intend to evaluate the number and the characteristics of the…

In galaxy clusters, efficiently accreting active galactic nuclei (AGN) are preferentially located in the infall regions of the cluster projected phase-space, and are rarely found in the cluster core. This has been attributed to both an…

Using the 1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North and 15 micron ISOCAM HDF-N surveys we find a tight correlation between the population of strongly evolving starbursts discovered in faint 15 micron ISOCAM surveys and the apparently normal galaxy…

Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) in globular clusters are low mass X-ray binaries that achieve high X-ray luminosities through a currently uncertain accretion mechanism. Using archival Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope observations, we…

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(Abridged) We present a morphological analysis of 17 X-ray selected clusters at z~0.25, imaged uniformly with HST WFPC2. Eight of these clusters have low X-ray luminosities (<10^{44} erg/s), while the remaining nine clusters have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Balogh , Ian Smail , R. Bower , B. Ziegler , G. Smith , R. Davies , A. Gaztelu , J. -P. Kneib , H. Ebeling

Globular clusters (GCs) are evolved stellar systems containing entire populations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs), which are efficient gamma-ray emitters. Observations of this emission can be used as a powerful tool to explore the dynamical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Raniere de Menezes , Fabio Cafardo , Rodrigo Nemmen

We present 4.5 {\mu}m luminosity functions for galaxies identified in 178 candidate galaxy clusters at 1.3 < z < 3.2. The clusters were identified as Spitzer/IRAC color-selected overdensities in the Clusters Around Radio-Loud AGN (CARLA)…

Data from a new, wide field, coincident optical and X-ray survey, the X-ray Dark Cluster Survey (XDCS) are presented. This survey comprises simultaneous and independent searches for clusters of galaxies in the optical and X-ray passbands.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David G. Gilbank , Richard G. Bower , F. J. Castander , B. L. Ziegler

We present a sample of hard X-ray selected candidate black holes (BHs) in 19 dwarf galaxies. BH candidates are identified by cross-matching a parent sample of ~44,000 local dwarf galaxies (M_stellar < 3 x 10^9 Msun, z<0.055) with the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Sean Lemons , Amy Reines , Richard Plotkin , Elena Gallo , Jenny Greene

From the poor cluster catalog of White et al. (1996), we define a sample of 71 optically-selected poor galaxy clusters. The surface-density enhance- ment we require for our clusters falls between that of the loose associations of Turner and…

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We present a study of the distribution of X-ray AGN in a representative sample of 26 massive clusters at 0.15<z<0.30, combining Chandra observations with highly complete spectroscopy of cluster members down to M_K*+2. In total we identify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. P. Haines , M. J. Pereira , A. J. R. Sanderson , G. P. Smith , E. Egami , A. Babul , A. C. Edge , A. Finoguenov , S. M. Moran , N. Okabe

The X-ray and $\gamma$-ray emission of globular clusters (GCs) is attributed to their large fraction of compact binary systems, especially those with millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We analyze a population of 124 Galactic GCs to investigate how…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Raniere de Menezes , Federico Di Pierro , Andrea Chiavassa

X-ray properties of galaxy groups can unlock some of the most challenging research topics in modern extragalactic astronomy: the growth of structure and its influence on galaxy formation. Only with the advent of the Chandra and XMM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Finoguenov , J. L. Connelly , L. C. Parker , D. J. Wilman , J. S. Mulchaey , R. P. Saglia , M. L. Balogh , R. G. Bower , S. L. McGee

We analyse color-magnitude diagrams of eight Globular Clusters (GCs) in the outer Galactic Halo. Images were taken with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Survey and the Ultraviolet and Visual Channel of the Wide Field Camera…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , L. R. Bedin , A. Dotter , H. Jerjen , D. Kim , D. Nardiello , G. Piotto , J. Cong

She et al. (Paper I) assembled a catalog of nearby galaxies observed with the Chandra X-ray observatory, by cross-matching galaxies in the NASA Extragalactic Database (NED) within 50 Mpc and the Chandra archive. That sample has enabled…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-06 Sheng Bi , Hua Feng , Luis C. Ho

Gravitational lenses that produce multiple images of background quasars can be an invaluable cosmological tool. Deriving cosmological parameters, however, requires modeling the potential of the lens itself. It has been estimated that up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. E. Grant , M. W. Bautz , G. Chartas , G. P. Garmire