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Recently, with the Chandra X-ray Telescope we have detected several local X-ray absorption lines along lines-of-sight towards distant quasars. These absorption lines are produced by warm/hot gas located in local intergalactic space and/or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 T. Fang , C. Canizares , K. Sembach , H. Marshall , J. Lee , D. Davis

The current generation of X-ray observatories like Chandra allows studies with very fine spatial details. It is now possible to resolve X-ray point sources projected into the cluster diffuse emission and exclude them from the analysis to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Branchesi , I. M. Gioia , C. Fanti , R. Fanti

Presented here are high spatial and spectral resolution Chandra X-ray observations of the famous interacting galaxy pair, the Mice, a system similar to, though less evolved than, the well-known Antennae galaxies. Previously unpublished…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Read

Recent X-ray observations have had a major impact on topics ranging from protostars to cosmology. They have also drawn attention to important and general physical processes that currently limit our understanding of thermal and nonthermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roger Blandford

This paper presents a brief overview of the accomplishments of the Chandra satellite that are shedding light on the origin of high energy particles in astrophysical sources, with the emphasis on clusters of galaxies. It also discusses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Greg Madejski

I describe the IR and X-ray observational campaign we have undertaken for the purpose of determining the nature of the faint discrete X-ray source population discovered by Chandra in the Galactic Center (GC). Data obtained for this project…

I discuss Chandra X-ray Observatory measurements of cavities in galaxy clusters and their implications for heating the intracluster gas. The emerging paradigm for cooling flows has important implications for understanding self-regulated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. R. McNamara

Many X-ray observations of GigaHertz Peaked Spectrum and Compact Steep Spectrum sources have been made with Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton Observatory over the last few years. The X-ray spectra contribute the important information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Aneta Siemiginowska

We discuss the central role played by the X-ray study of hot baryons within galaxy clusters to reconstruct the assembly of cosmic structures and to trace the past history of star formation and accretion onto supermassive Black Holes (BHs).…

We report the results of a deep Chandra ACIS pointing at the merging system NGC 4038/39. We detect an extraordinarily luminous population of X-ray sources, with luminosity well above that of XRBs in M31 and the Milky Way. If these sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Fabbiano , A. Zezas , S. S. Murray

We present a brief review of Chandra observations of neutron stars, with a concentration on neutron stars in supernova remnants. The early Chandra results clearly demonstrate how critical the angular resolution has been in order to separate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Weisskopf

Chandra is detecting a significant population of normal and starburst galaxies in extremely deep X-ray exposures. For example, approximately 15% of the sources arising in the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North survey are fairly normal galaxies,…

We discuss the central role played by the X-ray study of hot baryons within galaxy clusters to reconstruct the assembly of cosmic structures and to trace the past history of star formation and accretion onto supermassive Black Holes (BHs).…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Borgani , P. Rosati , B. Sartoris , P. Tozzi , R. Giacconi

Three different M31 disk fields, spanning a range of stellar populations, were observed by Chandra. We report the X-ray point source luminosity function (LF) of each region, and the LF of M31's globular clusters, and compare these with each…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. K. H. Kong , R. Di Stefano , M. R. Garcia , J. Greiner

We present here an overview of the status of the Chandra X-ray Observatory which has now been operating for five years. The Observatory is running smoothly, and the scientific return continues to be outstanding. We provide some details on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin C. Weisskopf

About 2 million seconds of Chandra observing time have been devoted to the Galactic center (GC), including large-scale surveys and deep pointings. These observations have led to the detection of about 4000 discrete X-ray sources and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Q. Daniel Wang

The X-ray emission from clusters of galaxies enables them to be used as good cosmological probes and as an example for massive galaxy formation. The gas mass fraction in clusters should be a universal standard which by means of Chandra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. C. Fabian , S. W. Allen

We present early results from the first IR imaging of the weak X-ray sources discovered in a recent Chandra survey towards the Galactic Centre. From our VLT observations we will identify likely counterparts to a sample of the hardest…

Clusters of galaxies and the large scale filaments that connect neighboring clusters are expected to be sites of acceleration of charged particles and sources of non-thermal radiation from radio frequencies to gamma rays. Gamma rays are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pasquale Blasi , Stefano Gabici , Gianfranco Brunetti

We present a systematical analysis of the Chandra observations of 53 nearby highly-inclined (i>60 degree) disk galaxies to study the coronae around them. This sample covers a broad range of galaxy properties: e.g., about three orders of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jiang-Tao Li , Q. Daniel Wang