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Blazars represent the most abundant class of high-energy extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. The subset of blazars known as BL Lac objects is on average closer to Earth and characterized by harder spectra at high energy than the whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-26 M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , G. Lamanna , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico

We study the X-ray emission in a sample of galaxy clusters using the BeppoSAX PDS instrument in the 20 -- 80 keV energy band. The non-thermal hard X-ray cluster emission (HXR) is detected at a 2 sigma level in 50% of the non-significantly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Nevalainen , T. Oosterbroek , M. Bonamente , S. Colafrancesco

A deep 75 ks {\it Chandra} ACIS--I data of NGC 2024 was analyzed, aiming at a search for diffuse X-ray emission in this one of the most nearby (415 pc) massive star-forming regions. After removing point sources, an extended emission was…

The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission is conventionally modeled as the product of cosmic-ray interactions with the interstellar medium. However, the cumulative contribution of stellar atmospheres acting as hadronic interaction targets…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Yanbo Wang , Zhenglong Wang , Rui Zhang , Yi Zhang

We describe the X-ray emission as observed with Suzaku from five symbiotic stars that we selected for deep Suzaku observations after their initial detection with ROSAT, ASCA and Swift. We find that the X-ray spectra of all five sources can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 N. E. Nuñez , T. Nelson , K. Mukai , J. L. Sokoloski , G. J. M. Luna

We calculate the flux of radio, hard X-ray and UV radiation from clusters of galaxies as produced by synchrotron emission and Inverse Compton Scattering of electrons generated as secondaries in cosmic ray interactions in the intracluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 P. Blasi , S. Colafrancesco

We present spatially-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of the luminous lensing cluster Abell 2390, using observations made with the Chandra observatory. The temperature of the X-ray gas is shown to rise with increasing radius within the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. W. Allen , S. Ettori , A. C. Fabian

The ~1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North observation is used to study the extended X-ray sources in the region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N), yielding the most sensitive probe of extended X-ray emission at cosmological distances…

The temperature and abundance structure in the intracluster medium (ICM) of the Hydra-A cluster of galaxies is studied with ASCA and ROSAT. The effect of the large extended outskirts in the point-spread function of the X-Ray Telescope on…

We present new Chandra X-ray observations of the luminous X-ray cluster, MS0451.6-0305, at z=0.5386. Spectral imaging data for the cluster are consistent with an isothermal cluster of 10.0 - 10.6 +/-1.6 keV and an Fe abundance of 0.32-0.40…

An observation of the gravitationally lensed system 2016+112 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has resolved a mystery regarding the proposed presence of a dark matter object in the lens plane of this system. The Chandra ACIS observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Chartas , M. Bautz , G. Garmire , C. Jones , D. P. Schneider

We study the properties of the diffuse X-ray background by using the results of a cosmological hydrodynamical simulation of the concordance LambdaCDM model. The simulation follows gravitational and gas dynamics and includes a treatment of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Roncarelli , L. Moscardini , P. Tozzi , S. Borgani , L. M. Cheng , A. Diaferio , K. Dolag , G. Murante

An excess of soft X-ray emission (0.2-1 keV) above the contribution from the hot intra-cluster medium (ICM) has been detected in a number of galaxy clusters, including the Coma cluster. The physical origin of this emitting medium above hot…

It has been known for over 30 years that Galactic globular clusters (GCs) are overabundant by orders of magnitude in bright X-ray sources per unit mass relative to the disk population. Recently a quantitative understanding of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John M. Fregeau

We report on the detection of a soft spatially-extended component of X-ray emission around four intermediate-redshift 3C quasars observed with Chandra: 3C254, 3C263, 3C275.1 and 3C281. The bolometric luminosity of this emission ranges over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 C. S. Crawford , A. C. Fabian

We present an analysis of BeppoSAX observations of the IC1262 galaxy cluster and report the first temperature and abundance measurements, along with preliminary indications of diffuse, nonthermal emission. By fitting a 6' (~360 h_50^-1 kpc)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. S. Hudson , M. J. Henriksen , S. Colafrancesco

The compact stellar clusters have emerged as particularly promising candidates for cosmic rays (CR) accelerators. The star clusters, recently observed in gamma-rays, are also known sources of non-thermal X-ray emission, which is due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Roman Krivonos , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrei Bykov , Sergey Sazonov , Maïca Clavel

A Chandra ACIS-S imaging observation of the nearby galaxy M81 (NGC 3031) reveals 9 luminous soft X-ray sources. The local environments, X-ray spectral properties, and X-ray light curves of the sources are presented and discussed in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Douglas Swartz , Kajal Ghosh , Valery Suleimanov , Allyn Tennant , Kinwah Wu

We report on the detection of two elongated X-ray features G359.89-0.08 and G359.54+0.18 in the Galactic center (GC) region using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. G359.89-0.08 is an elongated X-ray feature located $\sim$2\arcmin in projection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Lu , Q. D. Wang , C. C. Lang

This paper describes the {\it Chandra} observation of the diffuse emission in the face-on spiral NGC 6946. Overlaid on optical and H${\alpha}$ images, the diffuse emission follows the spiral structure of the galaxy. An overlay on a 6 cm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Schlegel , S. S. Holt , R. Petre