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A search for $\gamma$-ray emission from SNRs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on the detection of concentrations in the arrival direction Fermi-LAT images of photons at energies higher than 10 GeV found significant evidence for 9…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Andrea Tramacere , Riccardo Campana , Enrico Massaro , Fabrizio Bocchino , Marco Miceli , Salvatore Orlando

We present UVIT/Astrosat UV photometry of the RSG population of the Small Cloud galaxy (SMC). As RSGs are extremely faint in the far-UV, these observations directly probe potential companion stars. From a sample of 861 SMC RSGs, we find 88…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-12 L. R. Patrick , D. Thilker , D. J. Lennon , L. Bianchi , A. Schootemeijer , R. Dorda , N. Langer , I. Negueruela

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) imaged the sky in two Ultraviolet (UV) bands, far-UV (FUV) and near-UV (NUV), delivering the first comprehensive sky surveys at these wavelengths. The GALEX database contains FUV and NUV images,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Luciana Bianchi , Bernard Shiao , David Thilker

We present analysis of the far ultraviolet (FUV) emission of sources in the central region of the Coma cluster (z=0.023) using the data taken by the UVIT aboard the multi-wavelength satellite mission AstroSat. We find a good correlation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-26 Smriti Mahajan , Kulinder Pal Singh , Joseph E. Postma , Kala G. Pradeep , Koshy George , Patrick Côté

We have studied the performance of the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope payload on AstroSat and derived a calibration of the FUV and NUV instruments on board. We find that the sensitivity of both the FUV and NUV channels is as expected from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 P. T. Rahna , Jayant Murthy , M. Safonova , F. Sutaria , S. B. Gudennavar , S. G. Bubbly

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is an irregular dwarf galaxy exhibiting evidence of recent and ongoing star formation. We performed a spatial clustering analysis of far-ultraviolet stars in the SMC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 Sipra Hota , Richard de Grijs , Annapurni Subramaniam

A very long term near-infrared variable star survey towards the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds was carried out using the 1.4m InfraRed Survey Facility at the South African Astronomical Observatory. This project was initiated in December…

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is an irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, which has been observed extensively in Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma rays with the H.E.S.S. telescopes since 2004 and reaches now a total observation time of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-23 Nukri Komin , Maria Haupt , H. E. S. S. Collaboration

We present an analysis of far-ultraviolet (FUV: 130-180 nm) and optical (U, B, and V) data of the stellar and nebular content of the OB associations LH 9, 10, and 13 in the Large Magellanic Cloud region N 11. The FUV images from The…

In this paper we introduce the deepest and most extensive ultraviolet extragalactic source catalogs of the Virgo Cluster area to date. Archival and targeted GALEX imaging is compiled and combined to provide the deepest possible coverage…

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most luminous objects in the Universe, emitting radiation from low-energy radio waves to high energy $\gamma$-rays. They are well known to exhibit flux variations at nearly all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 M. Reshma , C. S. Stalin , Amit Kumar Mandal , S. B. Gudennavar , Senorita Benedict , Prajwel Joseph

In this paper, we report on the observational performance of the Swift Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) in response to the Gravitational Wave alerts announced by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and the…

The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Ultraviolet Source Survey (XMM-SUSS) is a catalogue of ultraviolet (UV) sources detected serendipitously by the Optical Monitor (XMM-OM) on-board the XMM-Newton observatory. The catalogue contains…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 M. J. Page , C. Brindle , A. Talavera , M. Still , S. R. Rosen , V. N. Yershov , H. Ziaeepour , K. O. Mason , M. S. Cropper , A. A. Breeveld , N. Loiseau , R. Mignani , A. Smith , P. Murdin

An ultraviolet survey of M31 has been carried out during 2017-19 with the UVIT instrument onboard the AstroSat Observatory. Here we match the M31 UVIT source catalog (Leahy et al. 2020) with the Chandra source catalog (Vulic et al. 2016).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-17 Denis Leahy , Yuyang Chen

We analyze three UV images covering a 100 square degree field toward the Virgo cluster,obtained by the FAUST space experiment. We detect 191 sources to a signal-to-noise ratio of 4.4 and identify 94% of them. Most sources have optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. Brosch , L. Formiggini , E. Almoznino , T. Sasseen , M. Lampton , S. Bowyer

We carried out a near- to mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of the patchy areas in the Small Magellanic Cloud using the Infrared Camera on board AKARI. Two 100 arcmin2 areas were imaged in 3.2, 4.1, 7, 11, 15, and 24 um…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Ita , T. Onaka , T. Tanabe , N. Matsunaga , M. Matsuura , I. Yamamura , Y. Nakada , H. Izumiura , T. Ueta , H. Mito , H. Fukushi , D. Kato

We present the first Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow catalog. The catalog contains data from over 64,000 independent UVOT image observations of 229 GRBs first detected by Swift, the High Energy…

We report the results of a new analysis of the ROSAT Wide Field Camera (WFC) all-sky survey data, designed to detect extragalactic sources of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation in regions of low Galactic N_H. We identify a total of 19…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Edelson , S. Vaughan , R. Warwick , E. Puchnarewicz , I. George

Local-Group galaxies provide access to samples of X-ray source populations of whole galaxies. The XMM-Newton survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) completely covers the bar and eastern wing with a 5.6 deg^2 area in the (0.2-12.0) keV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , W. Pietsch , J. Ballet , D. Hatzidimitriou , D. A. H. Buckley , M. Coe , M. Ehle , M. D. Filipovic , N. La Palombara , A. Tiengo

We present the catalog of clusters found in the area of ~2.4 square degree in the central regions of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The catalog contains data for 238 clusters, 72 of them are new objects. For each cluster equatorial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pietrzynski , A. Udalski , M. Kubiak , M. Szymanski , P. Wozniak , K. Zebrun