English
Related papers

Related papers: EROSITA study of the 47~Tucanae globular cluster

200 papers

We detect 353 X-ray point sources, mostly low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), in four Chandra observations of Centaurus A (NGC 5128), the nearest giant early-type galaxy, and correlate this point source population with the largest available…

The eROSITA instrument aboard the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) satellite has performed its first all-sky survey between December 2019 and June 2020. This paper presents the resulting hard X-ray (2.3-5 keV) sample, the first created from an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Sophia G. H. Waddell , J. Buchner , K. Nandra , M. Salvato , A. Merloni , I. Gauger , Th. Boller , R. Seppi , J. Wolf , T. Liu , M. Brusa , J. Comparat , T. Dwelly , Z. Igo , B. Musiimenta

We forecast the potential of the forthcoming X-ray galaxy-cluster survey with eROSITA to constrain dark-energy models. We focus on spatially-flat cosmological scenarios with either constant or time-dependent dark-energy equation-of-state…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 Annalisa Pillepich , Thomas H. Reiprich , Cristiano Porciani , Katharina Borm , Andrea Merloni

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS), executed during the performance verification phase of the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG)/eROSITA telescope, was completed in Nov. 2019. One of the science goals of this survey is to…

We have used a set of archived Hubble Space Telescope/ACS images to probe the evolved populations of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. We find an excess of Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the cluster core. We interpret this feature as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Giacomo Beccari , Francesco R. Ferraro , Barbara Lanzoni , Michele Bellazzini

We report time series and variability information for the optical identifications of X-ray sources in 47 Tuc reported in Paper I. The eight CVs with secure orbital periods have fainter accretion disks, in the V band, than field CVs with…

NGC 4472 is home to five ultraluminous X-ray sources hosted by globular clusters. These sources have been suggested as good black hole candidates in extragalactic globular clusters$-$ a highly sought after population that may provide…

Using new Chandra X-ray observations and existing XMM-Newton X-ray and Hubble far ultraviolet observations, we aim to detect and identify the faint X-ray sources belonging to the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808 in order to understand…

Despite considerations of mass loss from stellar evolution suggesting otherwise, the content of gas in globular clusters seems poor and hence its measurement very elusive. One way of constraining the presence of ionized gas in a globular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 F. Abbate , A. Possenti , A. Ridolfi , P. C. C. Freire , F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester , N. D'Amico

The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey (eRASS) is expected to contain ~100 quasars that emitted their light when the universe was less than a billion years old, i.e. at z>5.6. By selection, these quasars populate the bright end of the AGN X-ray…

We present new large field-of-view ($\sim$1\deg$\times$1\deg) Ca-CN photometry of the prototypical metal-rich globular cluster 47 Tucanae (NGC 104). Our results are the following. (1) The populational number ratios of the red giant branch…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Jae-Woo Lee

We present an updated catalog of X-ray point sources in the inner 500$\arcsec$ ($\sim$20 parsec) of the Galactic Center (GC), where the {\it nuclear star cluster} (NSC) stands, based on a total of $\sim$4.5 Ms of {\it Chandra} observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Zhenlin Zhu , Zhiyuan Li , Mark R. Morris

The nearby young open cluster eta Chamaeleontis has been observed by eROSITA/SRG during its CalPV phase for 150 ks. The eROSITA data were taken in the field-scan mode, an observing mode of Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) that follows a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-29 J. Robrade , S. Czesla , S. Freund , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , P. C. Schneider

We present an analysis of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) population in 75 Virgo cluster late-type galaxies, including all those with a star formation rate >~ 1 M_{sun}/yr and a representative sample of the less star-forming ones. This…

Using archival spectral-imaging data with a total exposure of $\sim144$ ks obtained by {\it Chandra}, 43 X-ray sources are detected within the half-light radius of globular cluster M62 (NGC6266). Based on the X-ray colour-luminosity diagram…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-01 Kwangmin Oh , C. Y. Hui , K. L. Li , A. K. H. Kong

We have used archival Hubble Space Telescope observations obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys to study the H{\alpha} emission properties of main sequence stars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Using a combination of multi-band…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Beccari , G. De Marchi , N. Panagia , L. Pasquini

We report the discovery of peculiar X-ray spectral variability in the binary radio millisecond pulsar PSR J0024--7204W in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. The observed emission consists of a dominant non-thermal component, which is eclipsed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Slavko Bogdanov , Jonathan E. Grindlay , Maureen van den Berg

The first SRG/eROSITA all-sky X-ray survey, eRASS1, resulted in a catalogue of over twelve thousand optically-confirmed galaxy groups and clusters in the western Galactic hemisphere. Using the eROSITA images of these objects, we measure and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 J. S. Sanders , Y. E. Bahar , E. Bulbul , V. Ghirardini , A. Liu , N. Clerc , M. E. Ramos-Ceja , T. H. Reiprich , F. Balzer , J. Comparat , M. Kluge , F. Pacaud , X. Zhang

Based on archival {\it Chandra} observations with a total exposure of 1.3 Ms, we study X-ray point sources in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, with the primary aim of searching for intra-cluster X-ray source populations. We detect 1177 point…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Xiangyu Jin , Meicun Hou , Zhenlin Zhu , Zhiyuan Li

Radio continuum observations offer a new window on compact objects in globular clusters compared to typical X-ray or optical studies. As part of the MAVERIC survey, we have used the Australia Telescope Compact Array to carry out a deep…