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We present the source catalog of a new Chandra ACIS-I observation of NGC 300 obtained as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. Our 63 ks exposure covers ~88% of the D25 isophote (R~6.3 kpc) and yields a catalog of 95 X-ray point sources…

We present comprehensive X-ray point source catalogs of NGC~55, NGC~2403, and NGC~4214 as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. The combined archival observations have effective exposure times of 56.5 ks, 190 ks, and 79 ks for NGC~55,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 B. Binder , B. F. Williams , M. Eracleous , P. P. Plucinsky , T. J. Gaetz , S. F. Anderson , E. D. Skillman , J. J. Dalcanton , A. K. H. Kong , D. R. Weisz

We present Chandra studies of the X-ray binary (XRB) populations in the bulge and ring regions of the ring galaxy NGC 1291. We detect 169 X-ray point sources in the galaxy, 75 in the bulge and 71 in the ring, utilizing the four available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Luo , G. Fabbiano , T. Fragos , D. -W. Kim , K. Belczynski , N. J. Brassington , S. Pellegrini , P. Tzanavaris , Junfeng Wang , A. Zezas

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

We present results from a 34 ks Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the nearby (d=3.1 Mpc) lenticular galaxy NGC 5102, previously shown to have an unusually low X-ray luminosity. We detect eleven X-ray point sources within the the $D_{25}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. P. Kraft , L. A. Nolan , T. J. Ponman , C. Jones , S. Raychaudhury

This study represents the most sensitive Chandra X-ray point source catalogue of M31. Using 133 publicly available Chandra ACIS-I/S observations totalling ~1 Ms, we detected 795 X-ray sources in the bulge, northeast, and southwest fields of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-07 N. Vulic , S. C. Gallagher , P. Barmby

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 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…

We present a study of X-ray source populations in M87, the cD galaxy of the Virgo cluster, using 12 archival {\it Chandra} observations with a total exposure of $\sim$680 ks spanning about a decade. A total of 346 point-like sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Luan Luan , Christine Jones , William R. Forman , Ákos Bogdán , Felipe Andrade-Santos , Andy D. Goulding , Ryan C. Hickox , Meicun Hou , Zhiyuan Li

X-ray point sources in galaxies are dominated by X-ray binaries (XRBs) that are variables or transients and whether their variability would alter the X-ray luminosity functions (XLF) is still in debate. Here we report on NGC 7331 as an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Ruolan Jin , Albert K. H. Kong

By analyzing the Chandra ACIS S3 data we studied the X-ray properties of the low-mass and high-mass X-ray binary populations in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 5055. A total of 43 X-ray point sources were detected within the 2 effective radii,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Luo , Jiyao Chen , Zhongli Zhang , Yu Wang , Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu

We present an analysis of the compact X-ray source population in the Seyfert~2 galaxy NGC 1068, imaged with Chandra. We find a total of 84 compact sources, of which 66 are projected onto the galactic disk of NGC 1068. Spectra of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David A. Smith , Andrew S. Wilson

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…

We present the X-ray point source population in the nearby Virgo elliptical galaxy NGC 4636 from 3 Chandra/ACIS observations, totaling 193 ks, taken over 3 years. Using wavelet decomposition, we detect 318 point sources. Here, we use a…

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

In this paper we discuss the X-ray point source population of NGC 4472, an elliptical galaxy in the Virgo cluster. We used recent deep Chandra data combined with archival Chandra data to obtain a 380 ks exposure time. We find 238 X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 T. D. Joseph , T. J. Maccarone , R. P. Kraft , G. R. Sivakoff

We present the X-ray source catalog for the Chandra monitoring observations of the elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649. The galaxy has been observed with Chandra ACIS-S3 in six separate pointings, reaching a total exposure of 299 ks. There are 501…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Luo , G. Fabbiano , J. Strader , D. -W. Kim , J. P. Brodie , T. Fragos , J. S. Gallagher , A. King , A. Zezas

Based on the recently completed {\it Chandra}/ACIS survey of X-ray point sources in nearby galaxies, we study the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) for X-ray point sources in different types of galaxies and the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Song Wang , Yanli Qiu , Jifeng Liu , Joel N. Bregman

We present point-source catalogs for the ~2 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S); this is one of the two most-sensitive X-ray surveys ever performed. The survey covers an area of ~436 arcmin^2 and reaches on-axis sensitivity…

The central $2\times0.8$ deg$^2$ region of our Galaxy contains $\sim10,000$ X-ray point sources that were detected by a series of Chandra observations over the last two decades. However, the limited bandpass of Chandra below 8 keV hampered…

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