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(Abridged) A large fraction of the gas in galactic haloes has temperatures between 10^4.5 and 10^7 K. At these temperatures, cooling is dominated by metal-line emission if the metallicity Z>~0.1 Zsun. We explore the detectability of several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Freeke van de Voort , Joop Schaye

We present initial results and the source catalog from the NuSTAR survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (hereafter, ECDFS) - currently the deepest contiguous component of the NuSTAR extragalactic survey program. The survey covers…

By characterizing the contribution of stray light to large datasets from the NuSTAR X-ray observatory collected over 2012--2017, we report a measurement of the cosmic X-ray background in the 3--20 keV energy range. These data represent…

We present results for the first observed outburst from the transient X-ray binary source MAXI J0637-430. This study is based on eight observations from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and six observations from the Neil…

Following a serendipitous detection with the NuSTAR observatory, we present a multi-epoch spectral and temporal analysis of an extreme ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) located in the outskirts of the Circinus galaxy, hereafter Circinus…

Context: On 2020 May 30, small and short-lived EUV brightenings were observed in the Quiet Sun (QS) during a four minutes sequence by EUI/HRIEUV on board Solar Orbiter. Their physical origin and possible impact on coronal or Transition…

Using ALMA observations, we performed the first systematic survey for transient brightenings (i.e. weak, small-scale episodes of energy release) in the quiet solar chromosphere at 3 mm. Our dataset included images of six 87'' x 87'' regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. Nindos , C. E. Alissandrakis , S. Patsourakos , T. S. Bastian

We present the first southern-hemisphere all-sky imager and radio-transient monitoring system implemented on two prototype stations of the low-frequency component of the Square Kilometre Array. Since its deployment the system has been used…

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, VERITAS, and other collaborations and instruments, providing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 M. Baloković , D. Paneque , G. Madejski , A. Furniss , J. Chiang , the NuSTAR team , : , M. Ajello , D. M. Alexander , D. Barret , R. Blandford , S. E. Boggs , F. E. Christensen , W. W. Craig , K. Forster , P. Giommi , B. W. Grefenstette , C. J. Hailey , F. A. Harrison , A. Hornstrup , T. Kitaguchi , J. E. Koglin , K. K. Madsen , P. H. Mao , H. Miyasaka , K. Mori , M. Perri , M. J. Pivovaroff , S. Puccetti , V. Rana , D. Stern , G. Tagliaferri , C. M. Urry , N. J. Westergaard , W. W. Zhang , A. Zoglauer , the VERITAS collaboration , : , S. Archambault , A. A. Archer , A. Barnacka , W. Benbow , R. Bird , J. Buckley , V. Bugaev , M. Cerruti , X. Chen , L. Ciupik , M. P. Connolly , W. Cui , H. J. Dickinson , J. Dumm , J. D. Eisch , A. Falcone , Q. Feng , J. P. Finley , H. Fleischhack , L. Fortson , S. Griffin , S. T. Griffiths , J. Grube , G. Gyuk , M. Huetten , N. Haakansson , J. Holder , T. B. Humensky , C. A. Johnson , P. Kaaret , M. Kertzman , Y. Khassen , D. Kieda , M. Krause , F. Krennrich , M. J. Lang , G. Maier , S. McArthur , K. Meagher , P. Moriarty , T. Nelson , D. Nieto , R. A. Ong , N. Park , M. Pohl , A. Popkow , E. Pueschel , P. T. Reynolds , G. T. Richards , E. Roache , M. Santander , G. H. Sembroski , K. Shahinyan , A. W. Smith , D. Staszak , I. Telezhinsky , N. W. Todd , J. V. Tucci , J. Tyler , S. Vincent , A. Weinstein , A. Wilhelm , D. A. Williams , B. Zitzer , the MAGIC collaboration , : , M. L. Ahnen , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , P. Antoranz , A. Babic , B. Banerjee , P. Bangale , U. Barres de Almeida , J. Barrio , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , B. Biasuzzi , A. Biland , O. Blanch , S. Bonnefoy , G. Bonnoli , F. Borracci , T. Bretz , E. Carmona , A. Carosi , A. Chatterjee , R. Clavero , P. Colin , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. de Angelis , B. De Lotto , E. D. de Oña Wilhelmi , C. Delgado Mendez , F. Di Pierro , D. Dominis Prester , D. Dorner , M. Doro , S. Einecke , D. Elsaesser , A. Fernández-Barral , D. Fidalgo , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , K. Frantzen , C. Fruck , D. Galindo , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , D. Garrido Terrats , M. Gaug , P. Giammaria , D. Eisenacher , N. Godinović , A. González Muñoz , D. Guberman , A. Hahn , Y. Hanabata , M. Hayashida , J. Herrera , J. Hose , D. Hrupec , G. Hughes , W. Idec , K. Kodani , Y. Konno , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. La Barbera , D. Lelas , E. Lindfors , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , M. López , R. López-Coto , A. López-Oramas , E. Lorenz , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , K. Mallot , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , K. Mannheim , L. Maraschi , B. Marcote , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , D. Mazin , U. Menzel , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , A. Moralejo , E. Moretti , D. Nakajima , V. Neustroev , A. Niedzwiecki , M. Nievas-Rosillo , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , R. Orito , A. Overkemping , S. Paiano , S. Palacio , M. Palatiello , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , X. Paredes-Fortuny , M. Persic , J. Poutanen , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , I. Puljak , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , J. Rodriguez Garcia , T. Saito , K. Satalecka , V. Scapin , C. Schultz , T. Schweizer , S. N. Shore , A. Sillanpää , J. Sitarek , I. Snidaric , D. Sobczynska , A. Stamerra , T. Steinbring , M. Strzys , L. O. Takalo , H. Takami , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , T. Terzić , D. Tescaro , M. Teshima , J. Thaele , D. F. Torres , T. Toyama , A. Treves , V. Verguilov , I. Vovk , J. E. Ward , M. Will , M. H. Wu , R. Zanin , external collaborators , : , J. Perkins , F. Verrecchia , C. Leto , M. Böttcher , M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , R. Bachev , A. Berdyugin , D. A. Blinov , M. I. Carnerero , W. P. Chen , P. Chinchilla , G. Damljanovic , C. Eswaraiah , T. S. Grishina , S. Ibryamov , B. Jordan , S. G. Jorstad , M. Joshi , E. N. Kopatskaya , O. M. Kurtanidze , S. O. Kurtanidze , E. G. Larionova , L. V. Larionova , V. M. Larionov , G. Latev , H. C. Lin , A. P. Marscher , A. A. Mokrushina , D. A. Morozova , M. G. Nikolashvili , E. Semkov , A. Strigachev , Yu. V. Troitskaya , I. S. Troitsky , O. Vince , J. Barnes , T. Güver , J. W. Moody , A. C. Sadun , S. Sun , T. Hovatta , J. L. Richards , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. Readhead , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski , J. Tammi , V. Ramakrishnan , R. Reinthal , E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Myserlis , V. Karamanavis , A. Sievers , H. Ungerechts , J. A. Zensus

The capability of NuSTAR to detect polarization in the Compton scattering regime (>50 keV) has been investigated. The NuSTAR mission, flown on June 2012 a Low Earth Orbit (LEO), provides a unique possibility to confirm the findings of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Simone Lotti , Lorenzo Natalucci , Paolo Giommi , B. Grefenstette , Fiona A. Harrison , Kristin K. Madsen , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Andreas Zoglauer

We report on simultaneous observations of the local starburst system Arp 299 with NuSTAR and Chandra, which provides the first resolved images of this galaxy up to energies of ~ 45 keV. Fitting the 3-40 keV spectrum reveals a column density…

A tight non-linear relation between the X-ray and the optical-ultraviolet (UV) emission has been observed in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) over a wide range of redshift and several orders of magnitude in luminosity, suggesting the existence…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Francesco Salvestrini , Guido Risaliti , Susanna Bisogni , Elisabeta Lusso , Cristian Vignali

The last solar minimum has been unusually quiet compared to the previous minima (since space-based radiometric measurements are available). The Sun's magnetic flux was substantially lower during this minimum. Some studies also show that the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 F. Shakeri , L. Teriaca , S. K. Solanki

We report on BeppoSAX and Chandra observations of three Hard X-Ray Transients in quiescence containing fast spinning (P<5 s) neutron stars: A 0538-66, 4U 0115+63 and V 0332+53. These observations allowed us to study these transients at the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Campana , L. Stella , G. L. Israel , A. Moretti , A. N. Parmar , M. Orlandini

Decades of astrophysical observations have convincingly shown that soft X-ray (SXR; ~0.1--10 keV) emission provides unique diagnostics for the high temperature plasmas observed in solar flares and active regions. SXR observations critical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Amir Caspi , Albert Y. Shih , Harry P. Warren , Marek Stęślicki , Janusz Sylwester

A ubiquitous presence of weak energy releases is one of the most promising hypotheses to explain coronal heating, referred to as the nanoflare hypothesis. The accelerated electrons associated with such weak heating events are also expected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Rohit Sharma , Divya Oberoi , Marina Battaglia , Sam Krucker

Supergiant fast X-ray transients are wind-fed binaries hosting neutron star accretors, which display a peculiar variability in the X-ray domain. Different models have been proposed to explain this variability and the strength of the compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 E. Bozzo , C. Ferrigno , P. Romano

We present the results of the first broadband X-ray analysis of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5055 ULX X-1, combining simultaneous data from XMM$-$Newton and NuSTAR missions, with a combined exposure time of $\sim$100 ks across the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-18 N. Cruz-Sanchez , E. A. Saavedra , F. A. Fogantini , F. García , J. A. Combi

Measuring the relative amount of high-temperature, low-emission-measure plasma is considered to be a smoking gun observation to constrain the frequency of plasma heating in coronal structures. Often, narrowband, extreme ultraviolet images,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 P. S. Athiray , Amy R. Winebarger

Hard-TeV BL Lacs are a new type of blazars characterized by a hard intrinsic TeV spectrum, locating the peak of their gamma-ray emission in the spectral energy distribution (SED) above 2-10 TeV. Such high energies are problematic for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 L. Costamante , G. Bonnoli , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Tagliaferri , D. Khangulyan