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We present an enhanced version of the publicly-available Stripe 82X catalog (S82-XL), featuring a comprehensive set of 22,737 unique X-ray point sources identified with a significance $\gtrsim 4\sigma$. This catalog is four times larger…

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 present a new five-epoch Chandra X-ray Observatory monitoring survey of the nearby spiral galaxy M33 which probes X-ray variability with time sampling between two weeks and four months. We characterize the X-ray variability of 55 bright…

Hard X-ray surveys like those provided by IBIS and BAT on board the INTEGRAL and Swift satellites list a significant number of sources which are unidentified and/or unclassified and which deserve multiwaveband observations to be properly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Pietro Parisi

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

The 4th IBIS/ISGRI survey lists 723 hard X-ray sources many still unidentified. We cross-correlated the list of the sources included in the 4th IBIS catalogue with the Swift/XRT data archive, finding a sample of 20 objects for which XRT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 R. Landi , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen , A. Bazzano , M. Fiocchi , A. J. Bird

We carry out classification of 4330 X-ray sources in the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog. They are selected under the requirement of being a point source with multiple XMM-Newton observations and at least one detection with the signal-to-noise ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Dacheng Lin , Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

We report the spectral and temporal variability properties of 18 candidate transient and potential transient (TC and PTC) sources detected in deep multi-epoch Chandra observation of the nearby elliptical galaxies, NGC 3379, NGC 4278 and NGC…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. J. Brassington , G. Fabbiano , A. Zezas , A. Kundu , D. -W. Kim , T. Fragos , A. R. King , S. Pellegrini , G. Trinchieri , S. Zepf , N. J. Wright

As TeV gamma-ray astronomy progresses into the era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), instantaneously following up on gamma-ray transients is becoming more important than ever. To this end, a worldwide network of Imaging Atmospheric…

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

The optical identification of large number of X-ray sources such as those from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey is challenging with conventional spectroscopic follow-up observations. We investigate two ROSAT All-Sky Survey fields of size 10 * 10…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 J. Greiner , G. A. Richter

Context: We use the first XMM serendipitous source catalogue (1XMM) to compile a sample of normal X-ray galaxies Aims: We seek to expand the database of X-ray selected normal galaxies at intermediate redshifts and examine the relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Rovilos , I. Georgantopoulos , P. Tzanavaris , M. Pracy , M. Whiting , D. Woods , C. Goudis

We present the spectral and temporal properties of 15 candidate transient X-ray sources detected in archival {\it XMM-Newton} and {\it Chandra} observations of the nearby Magellanic-type, SB(s)m galaxy NGC 55. On the basis of an X-ray color…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-14 V. Jithesh , Zhongxiang Wang

We present a catalog of cross-correlated radio, infrared and X-ray sources using a very restrictive selection criteria with an IDL-based code developed by us. The significance of the observed coincidences was evaluated through Monte Carlo…

X-ray extragalactic surveys are ideal laboratories for the study of the evolution and clustering of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The XXL Survey spans two fields of a combined 50 $deg^2$ observed for more than 6Ms with XMM-Newton, occupying…

We present a search for Galactic transient gamma-ray sources using 13 years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. The search is based on a recently developed variable-size sliding-time-window (VSSTW) analysis and aimed at studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-11 Dmitry Prokhorov , Anthony Moraghan

Fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are X-ray flares lasting minutes to hours. Multi-wavelength counterparts to these FXTs have been proven hard to find. As a result distance measurements are through indirect methods such as host galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Anne Inkenhaag , Peter G. Jonker , Andrew J. Levan , Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez , Franz E. Bauer , Deepak Eappachen

Motivated by the recent discoveries that six Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) are powered by highly super-Eddington X-ray pulsars, we searched for additional pulsating ULX (PULX) candidates by identifying sources that exhibit long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 X. Song , D. J. Walton , G. B. Lansbury , P. A. Evans , A. C. Fabian , H. Earnshaw , T. P. Roberts

We present a pilot search for variable and transient sources at 1.4 GHz with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). The search was performed in a 30 deg$^{2}$ area centred on the NGC 7232 galaxy group over 8 epochs and…

Very faint X-ray transients (VFXTs) are a group of X-ray binaries with low luminosities, the peak X-ray luminosities during their outbursts being only 10$^{34}$--10$^{36}$ erg\,s$^{-1}$. Using the $\gamma$-ray data obtained with the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-19 Gege Wang , Zhongxiang Wang