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The luminous infrared-loud quasar IRAS 13349+2438 was observed with the XMM-Newton Observatory as part of the Performance Verification program. The spectrum obtained by the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) exhibits broad (v ~ 1400 km/s…

We report on an observation of the recently discovered accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J00291+5934 performed with the RXTE-Proportional Counter Array (PCA) and Chandra-High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS). The RXTE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Paizis , M. A. Nowak , J. Wilms , T. J. -L. Courvoisier , K. Ebisawa , J. Rodriguez , P. Ubertini

We present analyses of a 50 ks observation of the supergiant X-ray binary system Cygnus X-1/HDE 226868 taken with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS). Cyg X-1 was in its spectrally hard state and the…

We analyze observations of the low mass X-ray binary 2S0921-63 obtained with the gratings and CCDs on Chandra and XMM. This object is a high inclination system showing evidence for an accretion disk corona (ADC). Such a corona has the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. R. Kallman , L. Angelini , B. Boroson , J. Cottam

We present short \chandra observations of twelve bright (i<18) z_em~1.5 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey chosen to have significantly redder optical colors than most quasars at the same redshift. Of the five quasars with optical…

(abridged) We present a catalog of 2357 point sources detected during 590 ks of Chandra observations of the 17-by-17 arcminute field around Sgr A*. This field encompasses a physical area of 40 by 40 pc at a distance of 8 kpc. The…

We present the results from simultaneous observations of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 with the Chandra High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer and the HST Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. The X-ray grating spectrum…

We make use of a 500ks Chandra HRC-S/LETG spectrum of the blazar H2356-309, combined with a lower S/N spectrum of the same target, to search for the presence of warm-hot absorbing gas associated with two Large-Scale Structures (LSSs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Zappacosta , F. Nicastro , R. Maiolino , G. Tagliaferri , D. A. Buote , T. Fang , P. J. Humphrey , F. Gastaldello

We present a detailed spectroscopic study of the hot gas in the Galactic halo toward the direction of a blazer PKS 2155-304 (z=0.117). The OVII and OVIII absorption lines are measured with the Low and High Energy Transmission Grating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Toshishige Hagihara , Yangsen Yao , Noriko Y. Yamasaki , Kazuhisa Mitsuda , Q. Daniel Wang , Yoh Takei , Tomotaka Yoshino , Dan McCammon

We present a Chandra X-ray observation of the very high energy $\gamma$-ray source HESS$ $J1640-465. We identify a point source surrounded by a diffuse emission that fills the extended object previously detected by XMM Newton at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Lemiere , P. Slane , B. M. Gaensler , S. Murray

With close pairs of quasars at different redshifts, a background quasar sightline can be used to study a foreground quasar's environment in absorption. We use a sample of 650 projected quasar pairs to study the HI Lya absorption transverse…

(Abridged) The results of a Chandra X-ray Observatory High-Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) observation of the nova-like cataclysmic binary AE Aqr are described. First, the X-ray spectrum is that of an optically thin multi-temperature…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Christopher W. Mauche

We present here high resolution X-ray spectrum of the accreting binary X-ray pulsar GX 1+4 obtained with the High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) instrument of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. This was supplemented by a simultaneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Paul , T. Dotani , F. Nagase , U. Mukherjee , S. Naik

We report the first detection of an OVIII Ly-alpha absorption line associated with an overdense region in the intergalactic medium (IGM) along the sightline towards PKS 2155-304 with the Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Fang , H. L. Marshall , J. C. Lee , D. S. Davis , C. R. Canizares

We present the results of the spatial and spectral analysis of the deep (~200 ksec) Chandra HETG observation of the changing look AGN NGC7582. During this observation NGC7582 was in a highly obscured state. Therefore, we considered also a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Valentina Braito , James Reeves , Stefano Bianchi , Emanuele Nardini , Enrico Piconcelli

We present high-resolution X-ray images taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the field that contains the unidentified TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1804-216. A total of eleven discrete sources were detected with a posteriori…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei Cui , Alexander Konopelko

Aims: The knowledge of the redshift of a lensing galaxy that produces multiple images of a background quasar is essential to any subsequent modeling, whether related to the determination of the Hubble constant H_0 or to the mass profile of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Eigenbrod , F. Courbin , G. Meylan

We present results from a 20 ks XMM-Newton DDT observation of the radio-load quasar CFHQS J142952+544717 at z=6.18, whose extreme X-ray luminosity was recently revealed by the SRG/eROSITA telescope in the course of its first all-sky survey.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-16 P. Medvedev , M. Gilfanov , S. Sazonov , N. Schartel , R. Sunyaev

We present results from a 47 ks observation of the Andromeda galaxy, M31, using the High-Resolution Camera of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. We detect 142 point sources spanning three orders of magnitude in luminosity, from $L_X = 2\times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Philip Kaaret

We observed MS 1054-0321, the highest redshift cluster of galaxies in the Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS), with the Chandra ACIS-S detector. We find the X-ray temperature of the cluster to be 10.4 +1.7 -1.5 keV, lower than, but…