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The ACIS-S camera on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory has been used to discover a hot bubble in the planetary nebula (PN) IC4593, the most distant PN detected by Chandra so far. The data are used to study the distribution of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 J. A. Toalá , M. A. Guerrero , L. Bianchi , Y. -H. Chu , O. De Marco

We report ASCA GIS and SIS observations of the nearby (D = 11.6 Mpc), nearly edge-on, starburst galaxy NGC 2146. These X-ray spectral data complement ROSAT PSPC and HRI imaging discussed by Armus et al., 1995. The broad band (0.6-9 keV)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Della Ceca , R. E. Griffiths , T. M. Heckman , M. D. Lehnert , K. A. Weaver

High energy gamma-rays have been detected from Cygnus X-3, a system composed of a Wolf-Rayet star and a black hole or neutron star. The gamma-ray emission is linked to the radio emission from the jet launched in the system. The flux is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Dubus , B. Cerutti , G. Henri

We examine mechanisms that may explain the luminosities and relatively low temperatures of extended X-ray emission in planetary nebulae. By building a simple flow structure for the wind from the central star during the proto, and early,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Noam Soker , Joel H. Kastner

The results of a 0.4-10.0 keV ASCA spectral analysis of a sample of low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN; M51, NGC 3147, NGC 4258), low-ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs; NGC 3079, NGC 3310, NGC 3998, NGC 4579, NGC 4594) and starburst…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Ptak , P. Serlemitsos , T. Yaqoob , R. Mushotzky

Deep Chandra exposures reveal the presence of diffuse X-ray emission with a luminosity of 1.3x10^{39} ergs s^{-1} from the spiral galaxy NGC 3184. This appears to be truly diffuse thermal emission distinct from the low-luminosity LMXB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. E. Doane , W. T. Sanders , E. M. Wilcots , M. Juda

Recent observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided us with the capability to discriminate point sources, such as the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, from the diffuse emission within the inner 10'' of the Galaxy. The hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriel Rockefeller , Chris L. Fryer , Fulvio Melia , Michael S. Warren

The X-ray narrow emission line region (NELR) of the archetypal Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC\,5548 has been interpreted as a single-phase photoionized plasma that is absorbed by some of the warm absorber components. This scenario requires those…

Aims: We conducted the first X-ray observations of the newly erupting FU Ori-type outburst in HBC 722 (V2493 Cyg) with the aim to characterize its X-ray behavior and near-stellar environment during early outburst. Methods: We used data from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-22 Armin Liebhart , Manuel Guedel , Stephen Skinner , Joel Green

We present the diffuse X-ray emission identified in Chandra observations of the young, massive Galactic star cluster Westerlund 1. After removing point-like X-ray sources down to a completeness limit of 2e31 erg/s, we identify 3e34 erg/s…

We use integral field spectroscopy to study in detail the Wolf-Rayet (WR) population in NGC 3310, spatially resolving 18 star-forming knots with typical sizes of 200-300 pc in the disc of the galaxy hosting a substantial population of WRs.…

We present the results of optical panoramic and long-slit spectroscopy of the nebula MF16 associated with the Ultraluminous X-ray Source NGC6946 ULX-1. More than 20 new emission lines are identified in the spectra. Using characteristic line…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-03 Pavel Abolmasov , S. Fabrika , O. Sholukhova , Taro Kotani

We compute the thermal X-ray emission from hydrodynamic simulations of the 30 Wolf-Rayet (WR) stars orbiting within a parsec of Sgr A$^*$, with the aim of interpreting the Chandra X-ray observations of this region. The model well reproduces…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Christopher M. P. Russell , Q. Daniel Wang , Jorge Cuadra

The carbon-rich WC5 star WR 114 was not detected during a 15.9 ksec XMM-Newton observation, implying an upper limit to the X-ray luminosity of Lx < 2.5*10^{30} erg/s and to the X-ray to bolometric luminosity ratio of Lx/Lbol < 4*10^{-9}.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 L. M. Oskinova , R. Ignace , W. -R. Hamann , A. M. T. Pollock , J. C. Brown

(abridged) We present a comprehensive comparison of the X-ray properties of a sample of eight dwarf starburst galaxies observed with Chandra (I Zw 18, VII Zw 403, NGC 1569, NGC 3077, NGC 4214, NGC 4449, NGC 5253, He 2-10). In Paper I we…

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

We have performed a set of simulations of expanding, spherically symmetric nebulae inflated by winds from accreting black holes in ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). We implemented a realistic cooling function to account for free-free and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Magdalena Siwek , Aleksander Sadowski , Ramesh Narayan , Timothy P. Roberts , Roberto Soria

The high XMM-Newton throughput allows a detailed investigation of the spatial, spectral and variability properties of the extended and point source emission of the starburst galaxy NGC 253 simultaneously. We characterize the brightest…

We have analyzed observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the diffuse emission by hot gas in 7 dwarf starburst galaxies, 6 edge-on starburst galaxies, and 9 Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies. These systems cover ranges of \~ 10^4…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. Grimes , T. Heckman , D. Strickland , A. Ptak

We present preliminary results from the first X-ray gratings spectrometer observations of a planetary nebula (PN). We have used the Chandra X-ray Observatory Low Energy Transmission Gratings Spectrometer (LETGS) to observe the bright,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joel H. Kastner , Young Sam Yu , John Houck , Ehud Behar , Raanan Nordon , Noam Soker

We investigate a sample of 14 clusters of galaxies observed with XMM-Newton in a search for soft X-ray excess emission. In five of these clusters a significant soft excess is evident. This soft X-ray excess is compared with the thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Kaastra , R. Lieu , T. Tamura , F. B. S. Paerels , J. W. den Herder