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We present a review of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXT) Project, a systematic investigation of the properties of SFXTs with a strategy that combines Swift monitoring programs with outburst follow-up observations. This strategy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 P. Romano , V. Mangano , L. Ducci , P. Esposito , S. Vercellone , F. Bocchino , D. N. Burrows , J. A. Kennea , H. A. Krimm , N. Gehrels , R. Farinelli , C. Ceccobello

We have investigated a group of unassociated radio sources included in the 3CR cat- alogue to increase the multi-frequency information on them and possibly obtain an identification. We have carried out an observational campaign with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-27 A. Maselli , F. Massaro , G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , D. E. Harris , A. Paggi , . E. Liuzzo , G. R. Tremblay , S. A. Baum , C. P. O'Dea

We look to provide a detailed description of the SPectroscopic IDentification of ERosita Sources (SPIDERS) survey, an SDSS-IV programme aimed at obtaining spectroscopic classification and redshift measurements for complete samples of…

We report on the production of a large area, shallow, sky survey, from XMM-Newton slews. The great collecting area of the mirrors coupled with the high quantum efficiency of the EPIC detectors have made XMM-Newton the most sensitive X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. D. Saxton , A. M. Read , P. Esquej , M. J. Freyberg , B. Altieri , D. Bermejo

We present an X-ray point-source catalog from the XMM-Large Scale Structure survey region (XMM-LSS), one of the XMM-Spitzer Extragalactic Representative Volume Survey (XMM-SERVS) fields. We target the XMM-LSS region with $1.3$ Ms of new…

The $Chandra$ archival data is a valuable resource for various studies on different topics of X-ray astronomy. In this paper, we utilize this wealth and present a uniformly processed data set, which can be used to address a wide range of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Song Wang , Jifeng Liu , Yanli Qiu , Yu Bai , Huiqin Yang , Jincheng Guo , Peng Zhang

The X-ray Telescope (XRT), on board the {\it Swift} satellite, provides: automated source detection and position with few arcsecond accuracy within few seconds from target acquisition; CCD spectroscopy and imaging capability (0.2-10 keV),…

The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is performing a high Galactic latitude survey in the 14-195 keV band at a flux limit of ~10^{-11} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}, leading to the discovery of new high energy sources, most of which have not so far…

The latest INTEGRAL/IBIS all-sky survey lists 219 hard X-ray sources whose nature is still unknown. We report on our ongoing campaign aimed at identifying these high-energy emitters by exploiting the focusing capabilities of the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-05 R. Landi , L. Bassani , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , M. Fiocchi , A. Malizia , F. Panessa , V. Sguera , P. Ubertini

We describe the results of the first year of a program to localize new Galactic Transient sources discovered by MAXI with NASA's Swift mission. Swift is ideally suited for follow-up of MAXI discovered transients as its X-ray Telescope (XRT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-01 J. A. Kennea , P. Romano , V. Mangano , A. P. Beardmore , P. A. Evans , P. A. Curran , H. A. Krimm , K. Yamaoka

Abridged : The various IBIS/ISGRI catalogues contain a large population of hard X-ray sources whose nature is still unknown. Even if the $>20$ keV positional uncertainty provided by ISGRI is unprecedented, it is still too large to pinpoint…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Jerome Rodriguez , John A. Tomsick , Arash Bodaghee

Until recently, symbiotic binary systems in which a white dwarf accretes from a red giant were thought to be mainly a soft X-ray population. Here we describe the detection with the X-ray Telescope (XRT) on the Swift satellite of nine white…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-06 G. J. M. Luna , J. L. Sokoloski , K. Mukai , T. Nelson

We present StrayCats: a catalog of NuSTAR stray light observations of X-ray sources. Stray light observations arise for sources 1--4$^{\circ}$ away from the telescope pointing direction. At this off-axis angle, X-rays pass through a gap…

We present a catalog of 9017 X-ray sources identified in Chandra observations of a 2 by 0.8 degree field around the Galactic center. We increase the number of known X-ray sources in the region by a factor of 2.5. The catalog incorporates…

The super-massive black-holes in the centers of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are surrounded by obscuring matter that can block the nuclear radiation. Depending on the amount of blocked radiation, the flux from the AGN can be too faint to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-06 Eugenio Bottacini , Marco Ajello , Jochen Greiner

Aims: Pointed observations with XMM-Newton provide the basis for creating catalogues of X-ray sources detected serendipitously in each field. This paper describes the creation and characteristics of the 2XMM catalogue. Methods: The 2XMM…

In this concluding part of the series of three papers dedicated to the Swift/BAT hard X-ray survey (BXS), we focus on the X-ray spectral analysis and statistical properties of the source sample. Using a dedicated method to extract…

We present catalogs for the ~2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North, currently the deepest X-ray observation of the Universe in the 0.5-8.0 keV band. Five hundred and three (503) X-ray sources are detected over an ~448 sq.arcmin area in up to seven…

The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst satellite has detected a largely unbiased towards absorption sample of local ($<z> \approx 0.03$) AGN, based solely on their 14--195 keV flux. In the first 9 months of the survey, 153 AGN sources were detected. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Winter , R. Mushotzky , K. Lewis , S. Veilleux , M. Koss , B. Keeney

Since its launch in 1999, the XMM-\textit{Newton} mission has compiled the largest catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources, with the 3XMM being the third version of this catalogue. This is because of the combination of a large effective…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-02 A. Ruiz , I. Georgantopoulos , A. Corral