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We have detected a transient X-ray source in the M31 bulge through a continuing monitoring campaign with the Chandra ACIS-I camera. The source was detected at R.A.=00:42:33.428 +/- 0.11'', Dec.=+41:17:03.37 +/- 0.11'' in only a single…

The 10 by 10 degrees region around dynamic center of our Galaxy is known to host a large number of bright X-ray sources, most of which are low mass binary systems. While high luminosity Z-sources are especially bright in the standard X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Churazov , M. Gilfanov , R. Sunyaev , S. Kuznetsov

This paper reports the results of the analysis of the second ROSAT PSPC survey of M31 performed in summer 1992. We compare our results with those of the first survey. Within the ~10.7 deg^2 field of view, 396 individual X-ray sources are…

The features and make up of the population of X-ray sources in Galactic star clusters reflect the properties of the underlying stellar environment. Cluster age, mass, stellar encounter rate, binary frequency, metallicity, and maybe other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Maureen van den Berg

We report preliminary results from an arcsecond-resolution X-ray survey of nearby galaxies using ACIS on board Chandra. The total sample consists of 41 low-luminosity AGNs, including Seyferts, LINERs, and LINER/H II transition objects. In…

A number of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are physically associated with extragalactic globular clusters (GCs). We undertake a systematic X-ray analysis of eight of the brightest of these sources. We fit the spectra of the GC ULXs to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Kristen C. Dage , Stephen E. Zepf , Mark B. Peacock , Arash Bahramian , Omid Noroozi , Arunav Kundu , Thomas J. Maccarone

We report the discovery of eight X-ray sources with periodic variability in 487 ks of observations of the Galactic center with Chandra. The sources are identified from a sample of 285 objects detected with 100-4200 net counts. Their periods…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. P. Muno , F. K. Baganoff , M. W. Bautz , W. N. Brandt , G. P. Garmire , G. R. Ricker , ;

We report on a deep XMM-Newton EPIC observation of the globular cluster Omega Cen performed on August 13th, 2001. We have detected 11 and 27 faint X-ray sources in the core and half mass radii, searching down to a luminosity of 1.3 x…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce Gendre , Didier Barret , Natalie A. Webb

We analyse the photometric, chemical, star formation history and structural properties of the brightest globular cluster (GC) in M81, referred as GC1 in this work, with the intention of establishing its nature and origin. We find that it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Y. D. Mayya , D. Rosa-Gonzalez , M. Santiago-Cortes , L. H. Rodriguez-Merino , O. Vega , J. P. Torres-Papaqui , A. Bressan , L. Carrasco

We have identified 127 discrete sources in a Chandra observation of M83, with a detection limit of ~ 3 x 10^{36} erg/s in the 0.3-8.0 keV band. We discuss the individual properties of about 20 bright sources with L_x >~ 10^{38} erg/s, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto Soria , Kinwah Wu

We show with a short Chandra HRC-S exposure that the powerful X-ray source coincident with the nucleus of M33 is unresolved at the highest spatial resolution available to date (0"4). The source flux is variable, doubling during the 5 ks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Dubus , P. A. Charles , K. S. Long

We present an analysis of the X-ray point source populations in 182 Chandra images of galaxy clusters at z>0.1 with exposure time >10 ksec, as well as 44 non-cluster fields. Analysis of the number and flux of these sources, using a detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-04-29 R. Gilmour , P. Best , O. Almaini

We use Chandra X-ray and Spitzer infrared observations to explore the AGN and starburst populations of XMMXCS J2215.9-1738 at z=1.46, one of the most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy clusters known. The high resolution X-ray…

With a Chandra ACIS-S3 observation, we detect 42 X-ray point sources in the elliptical galaxy NGC 720, including a possible central source. Most of these sources will be low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), and 12 are located within 2" of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tesla E. Jeltema , Claude R. Canizares , David A. Buote , Gordon P. Garmire

One hundred fifty-four discrete non-nuclear Ultra-Luminous X-ray (ULX) sources, with intrinsic X-ray luminosities >1e39 ergs/s, are identified in 82 galaxies observed with Chandra's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer. Source positions, X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Douglas A. Swartz , Kajal K. Ghosh , Allyn F. Tennant , Kinwah Wu

Globular clusters (GCs) are thought to harbor the long-sought population of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). We present a systematic search for a putative IMBH in 81 Milky Way GCs, based on archival Chandra X-ray observations. We find…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-31 Zhao Su , Zhiyuan Li , Meicun Hou , Mengfei Zhang , Zhongqun Cheng

Inspired by the discovery of the Phoenix cluster by the South Pole Telescope team, we initiated a search for other massive clusters of galaxies missing from the standard X-ray catalogs. We began by identifying 25 cluster candidates not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-24 Megan Donahue , Kelsey Funkhouser , Dana Koeppe , Rachel L. S. Frisbie , G. Mark Voit

We analyse all the available Chandra observations of the Cartwheel Galaxy and its compact group, taken between 2001 and 2008, with the main aim of addressing the variability in the X-ray band for this spectacular collisional ring galaxy. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Chiara Salvaggio , Anna Wolter , Andrea Belfiore , Monica Colpi

We present a collection of classified X-ray sources in Globular Clusters (GCs) observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), including active binaries, cataclysmic variables, millisecond pulsars, and low-mass X-ray binaries. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Steven Chen , Oleg Kargaltsev , Hui Yang , Jeremy Hare

We report results from Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 imaging of the field of the luminous, bursting X-ray source in the globular cluster NGC 6441. Although the X-ray position is known to a precision of a few arcseconds, this source is only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric W. Deutsch , Scott F. Anderson , Bruce Margon , Ronald A. Downes