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We present a survey of X-ray point sources in the nearest and dynamically young galaxy cluster, Virgo, using archival Chandra observations that sample the vicinity of 80 early-type member galaxies. The X-ray source populations at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Meicun Hou , Zhiyuan Li , Eric W. Peng , Chengze Liu

In this first of two companion papers on the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), we present our analysis of a 63 Ksec Chandra HRC-I observation that yielded 742 X-ray detections within the 30'x30' field of view. To facilitate our interpretation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Flaccomio , F. Damiani , G. Micela , S. Sciortino , F. R. Harnden , S. S. Murray , S. J. Wolk

We have searched for unresolved X-ray sources in the vicinity of two rich clusters of galaxies: Abell 1995 (A1995) and MS 0451.6-0305 (MS0451), using the Chandra X-ray observatory. We detected significantly more unresolved sources around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. Molnar , J. P. Hughes , M. Donahue , M. Joy

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…

We searched in the public archive of the Chandra X-ray Observatory as of March 2016 and assembled a sample of 719 galaxies within 50 Mpc with ACIS observations available. By cross-correlation with the optical or near-infrared nuclei of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-08 Rui She , Luis C. Ho , Hua Feng

We used 3.1 million spectroscopically labelled sources from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to train an optimised random forest classifier using photometry from the SDSS and the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). We applied this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-15 A. O. Clarke , A. M. M. Scaife , R. Greenhalgh , V. Griguta

We report on \chandra observations of the central region of M31. By combining eight \chandra ACIS-I observations taken between 1999 and 2001, we have identified 204 X-ray sources within the central $\sim 17'\times17'$ region of M31, with a…

Based on the recently completed {\it Chandra}/ACIS survey of X-ray point sources in nearby galaxies, we study the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) for X-ray point sources in different types of galaxies and the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Song Wang , Yanli Qiu , Jifeng Liu , Joel N. Bregman

We present the first results from a Chandra survey of the central region of the Small Magellanic Cloud. We detect a total of 122 sources down to a limiting luminosity of ~4.3x10^{33} erg\s (corrected for Galactic N_{H}), which is ~10 times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zezas , J. C. McDowell , D. Hadzidimitriou , V. Kalogera , G. Fabbiano , P. Taylor

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of a sample of solar- and late-type field stars identified in the Chandra Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), a deep (160ks) and wide (0.9 deg2) extragalactic survey. The sample of 60 sources was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Nicholas J. Wright , Jeremy J. Drake , Francesca Civano

We present a comprehensive X-ray point source catalog of NGC 404 obtained as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. A new, 97 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation of NGC 404 was combined with archival observations for a total exposure of ~123…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Binder , B. F. Williams , M. Eracleous , T. J. Gaetz , A. K. H. Kong , E. D. Skillman , D. R. Weisz

We report X-ray results of the Chandra observation of Orion Molecular Cloud 2 and 3. A deep exposure of \sim 100 ksec detects \sim 400 X-ray sources in the field of view of the ACIS array, providing one of the largest X-ray catalogs in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Tsujimoto , K. Koyama , Y. Tsuboi , M. Goto , N. Kobayashi

We present the properties of the discrete X-ray sources detected in our monitoring program of the globular cluster (GC) rich elliptical galaxy, NGC 4278, observed with Chandra ACIS-S in six separate pointings, resulting in a co-added…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. J. Brassington , G. Fabbiano , D. -W. Kim , A. Zezas , S. Zepf , A. Kundu , L. Angelini , R. L. Davies , J. Gallagher , V. Kalogera , T. Fragos , A. R. King , S. Pellegrini , G. Trinchieri

We present X-ray and optical analysis of 188 AGN identified from 497 hard X-ray (f (2.0-8.0 keV) > 2.7x10^-15 erg cm^-2 s^-1) sources in 20 Chandra fields (1.5 deg^2) forming part of the Chandra Multi-wavelength Project. These medium depth…

We present X-ray spectral analysis of 20 point-like X-ray sources detected in Chandra Planetary Nebula Survey (ChanPlaNS) observations of 59 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the solar neighborhood. Most of these 20 detections are associated with…

We report a $30~\mathrm{ks}$ $Chandra$ ACIS-S survey of the globular cluster M3. Sixteen X-ray sources were detected within the half-light radius ($2.3'$) with $L_X \gtrsim 2.3 \times 10^{31}~\mathrm{erg~s^{-1}}$. We used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-14 Yue Zhao , Craig O. Heinke , Haldan N. Cohn , Phyillis M. Lugger , Adrienne M. Cool

We have undertaken a dedicated program of automatic source classification in the WISE database merged with SuperCOSMOS scans, comprehensively identifying galaxies, quasars and stars on most of the unconfused sky. We use the Support Vector…

We present Chandra and Spitzer data of the 186, extragalactic, hard 2-10 keV X-ray selected sources, which lie in the central part of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). For the vast majority of sources (99.5%) there is a spectroscopic or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Georgantopoulos , A. Georgakakis , A. Akylas

We report on the Chandra ACIS-S3 imaging observation of the globular cluster NGC 6752. We detect 6 X-ray sources within the 10.5" core radius and 13 more within the 115" half-mass radius down to a limiting luminosity of Lx approx 10^{30}…

The spectral line datacubes obtained from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its precursors, such as the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP), will be sufficiently large to necessitate automated detection and parametrisation of sources.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Russell Jurek