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Observations from multiple gamma-ray telescopes have uncovered a high energy gamma-ray source spatially coincident with the Galactic center. Recently, a compelling model for the broad-band gamma-ray emission has been formulated which posits…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Tim Linden , Stefano Profumo

We have observed the diffuse X-ray emission from the Galactic center (GC) using the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) on Suzaku. The high-energy resolution and the low-background orbit provide excellent spectra of the GC diffuse X-rays…

We report on the X-ray emission from the shell-like, non-thermal radio source Sgr A East located in the inner few parsecs of the Galaxy based on observations made with the ACIS detector on board Chandra. This is the first time Sgr A East…

We present the source catalog of a new Chandra ACIS-I observation of NGC 300 obtained as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. Our 63 ks exposure covers ~88% of the D25 isophote (R~6.3 kpc) and yields a catalog of 95 X-ray point sources…

We performed a spectro-morphological analysis of the diffuse emission in the Galactic center region with H.E.S.S. gamma-ray data. We relied on templates to model the diffuse emissions (the Galactic center ridge and the foreground component)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 J. Devin , A. Lemière , K. Streil , R. Terrier , C. van Eldik

We report the discovery of a $1^\circ$ scale X-ray plume in the northern Galactic Center (GC) region observed with Suzaku. The plume is located at ($l$, $b$) $\sim$ ($0\mbox{$.\!\!^\circ$}2$, $0\mbox{$.\!\!^\circ$}6$), east of the radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-04-17 Shinya Nakashima , Katsuji Koyama , Q. Daniel Wang , Rei Enokiya

We report Suzaku results for soft X-ray emission to the south of the Galactic center (GC). The emission (hereafter "GC South") has an angular size of ~42' x 16' centered at (l, b) ~ (0.0, -1.4), and is located in the largely extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Nakashima , M. Nobukawa , H. Uchida , T. Tanaka , T. G. Tsuru , K. Koyama , H. Murakami , H. Uchiyama

We present a detailed case study of the diffuse X-ray and H-alpha emission in the halo of NGC 253, a nearby edge-on starburst galaxy driving a galactic superwind. The arcsecond spatial resolution of the Chandra ACIS instrument allows us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. K. Strickland , T. M. Heckman , K. A. Weaver , C. G. Hoopes , M. Dahlem

{\it Chandra} Galactic Center Survey detected $\sim 800$ X-ray point-like sources in the $2^{\circ} \times 0.8^{\circ}$ sky region around the Galactic Center. In this paper, we study the spatial and luminosity distributions of these sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. F. Wu , S. N. Zhang , F. J. Lu , Y. K. Jin

We present the results of a Suzaku study of a bright point-like source in the 6.7 keV intensity map of the Galactic center region. We detected an intense FeXXV 6.7 keV line with an equivalent width of ~1 keV as well as emission lines of…

From the ASCA X-ray point-source list in the Galactic center 5x5 degree^2 region, we found the clear correlation between the position of the sources and the absorption. This fact implies that the major part of the absorption is due to the…

Chandra has resolved the starburst nuclear region of the face-on grand-design spiral M83. Eighty-one point sources are detected above 3.5 sigma in the ACIS S3 image, and 15 of them are within the inner 16-arcsec region of the galaxy. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Soria , Kinwah Wu

We present arcsecond resolution Chandra X-ray and ground-based optical H-alpha imaging of a sample of ten edge-on star-forming disk galaxies (seven starburst and three ``normal'' spiral galaxies), a sample which covers the full range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Strickland , T. M. Heckman , E. J. M. Colbert , C. G. Hoopes , K. A. Weaver

Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we have pinpointed the location of a faint X-ray point source (CXOUJ182913.1-125113) and an associated diffuse nebula in the composite supernova remnant G18.95-1.1. These objects appear to be the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 R. Tuellmann , P. P. Plucinsky , T. J. Gaetz , P. Slane , J. P. Hughes , I. Harrus , T. G. Pannuti

We use Chandra deep observations of the Galactic Center (GC) region to improve the constraints on the unresolved fraction of the Galactic X-ray background (also known as the Galactic ridge X-ray emission). We emphasize the importance of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Revnivtsev , A. Vikhlinin , S. Sazonov

We present the results of deep ASCA observations of two shell-like radio supernova remnants (SNRs) located in the direction to the Galactic center (GC) region. Unlike the radio morphology, G359.1-0.5 shows center-filled X-rays with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Aya Bamba , Jun Yokogawa , Masaaki Sakano , Katsuji Koyama

We present the catalog of X-ray sources detected in a shallow Chandra survey of the inner 2 by 0.8 degrees of the Galaxy, and in two deeper observations of the Radio Arches and Sgr B2. The catalog contains 1352 objects that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. P. Muno , F. E. Bauer , R. M. Bandyopadhyay , Q. D. Wang

We present an X-ray study of the massive edge-on Sa galaxy, Sombrero (M~104; NGC 4594), based on XMM-Newton and Chandra observations. A list of 62 XMM-Newton and 175 Chandra discrete X-ray sources is provided. At energies above 2 keV, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhiyuan Li , Q. Daniel Wang , Salman Hameed

We consider the absorption and scattering of X-rays observed from the Galactic center. One objective is to characterize the intrinsic X-ray emission from the central black hole, SgrA*, in its quiescent and flaring states. We correct the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jonathan C. Tan , B. T. Draine

We report the discovery of a 40 arcsec long X-ray filament in the core of the cluster of galaxies A1795. The feature coincides with an Halpha+NII filament found by Cowie et al in the early 1980s and resolved into at least 2 U-band filaments…