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As part of the Chandra GTO program we are monitoring and surveying M31 using the HRC and ACIS cameras. These observations have resolved the nuclear X-ray source into five separate sources, one of which is very soft and may (or may not!) be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Garcia , S. S. Murray , F. A. Primini , W. R. Forman , C. Jones , J. E. McClintock

We report the results of the analysis of the extended soft emission discovered in the Chandra ACIS pointing at the merging system NGC 4038/39 (the Antennae). We present a `multi-color' X-ray image that suggests both extensive absorption by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Fabbiano , M. Krauss , A. Zezas , A. Rots , S. Neff

We present arcsecond resolution Chandra X-ray and ground-based optical H-alpha imaging of a sample of ten edge-on star-forming disk galaxies (seven starburst and three ``normal'' spiral galaxies), a sample which covers the full range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Strickland , T. M. Heckman , E. J. M. Colbert , C. G. Hoopes , K. A. Weaver

We report on the first results of a multi-wavelength approach to test the hypothesis that the X-ray emission from intermediate-mass stars is generated by late-type magnetically active companions. Our high spatial resolution observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Stelzer , N. Huelamo , S. Hubrig , G. Micela , H. Zinnecker , E. Guenther

Soon after launch, the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS), one of the focal plane instruments on the Chandra X-ray Observatory, suffered radiation damage from exposure to soft protons during passages through the Earth's radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. E. Grant , M. W. Bautz , S. E. Kissel , B. LaMarr , G. Y. Prigozhin

Chandra ACIS-S observations of the galaxy cluster A3112 feature the presence of an excess of X-ray emission above the contribution from the diffuse hot gas, which can be equally well modeled with an additional non-thermal power-law model or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bonamente , J. Nevalainen , R. Lieu

We analyze observations of the low mass X-ray binary 2S0921-63 obtained with the gratings and CCDs on Chandra and XMM. This object is a high inclination system showing evidence for an accretion disk corona (ADC). Such a corona has the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. R. Kallman , L. Angelini , B. Boroson , J. Cottam

A deep 400-ksec ACIS-S observation of the nearest quasar known, Mrk 231, is combined with archival 120-ksec data obtained with the same instrument and setup to carry out the first ever spatially resolved spectral analysis of a hot X-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Veilleux , S. H. Teng , D. S. N Rupke , R. Maiolino , E. Sturm

We have performed a pilot Chandra survey of an off-center region of the Coma cluster to explore the X-ray properties and Luminosity Function of normal galaxies. We present results on 13 Chandra-detected galaxies with optical photometric…

Aims: Imaging and spectroscopy of X-ray extended sources require a proper characterisation of a spatially unresolved background signal. This background includes sky and instrumental components, each of which are characterised by its proper…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-04 Iacopo Bartalucci , Pasquale Mazzotta , Hervé Bourdin , Alexey Vikhlinin

We present a multi-wavelength study of seven AGN at spectroscopic redshift >2.5 in the 7 Ms Chandra Deep Field South, selected to have good FIR/sub-mm detections. Our aim is to investigate the possibility that the obscuration observed in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-03 C. Circosta , C. Vignali , R. Gilli , A. Feltre , F. Vito , F. Calura , V. Mainieri , M. Massardi , C. Norman

We present a system of X-ray photometry for the Chandra satellite. X-ray photometry can be a powerful tool to obtain flux estimates, hardness ratios, and colors unbiased by assumptions about spectral shape and independent of temporal and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 H. -J. Grimm , J. McDowell , G. Fabbiano , M. Elvis

We present a 50 ks Chandra ACIS-I X-ray observation of the Bower et al. VLA archival field. The observations reach a limiting sensitivity of ~1E-4 counts/s, corresponding to a flux of a few times 1E-15 erg/s/cm^2 for the models we explore.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Steve Croft , John A. Tomsick , Geoffrey C. Bower

We present a statistical analysis of the Chandra observation of the source field around the 3C 295 galaxy cluster (z=0.46) aimed at the search for clustering of X-ray sources. We applied three different methods of analysis, all suggesting a…

Stellar magnetic activity produces time-varying distortions in the photospheric line profiles of solar-type stars. These lead to systematic errors in high-precision radial-velocity measurements, which limit efforts to discover and measure…

As members of the instrument team for the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) on NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and as Chandra General Observers, we have developed a wide variety of data analysis methods that we believe are useful to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Patrick S. Broos , Leisa K. Townsley , Eric D. Feigelson , Konstantin V. Getman , Franz E. Bauer , Gordon P. Garmire

Recently, with the Chandra X-ray Telescope we have detected several local X-ray absorption lines along lines-of-sight towards distant quasars. These absorption lines are produced by warm/hot gas located in local intergalactic space and/or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 T. Fang , C. Canizares , K. Sembach , H. Marshall , J. Lee , D. Davis

The Chandra Deep Fields (CDFs), being a major thrust among extragalactic X-ray surveys and complemented effectively by multiwavelength observations, have critically contributed to our dramatically improved characterization of the 0.5-8 keV…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-26 Y. Q. Xue

Recent works have discovered two fast ($\approx 10$ ks) extragalactic X-ray transients in the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S XT1 and XT2). These findings suggest that a large population of similar extragalactic transients might exist in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Guang Yang , W. N. Brandt , S. F. Zhu , F. E. Bauer , B. Luo , Y. Q. Xue , X. C. Zheng

We discuss the flight calibration of the spectral response of the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) on-board the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO). The spectral resolution and sensitivity of the ACIS instrument have both been evolving…