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Highly sensitive and precise X-ray imaging from Chandra, combined with the superb spatial resolution of HST optical images, dramatically enhances our empirical understanding of compact binaries such as cataclysmic variables and low mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Bruce Margon , B. Beck-Winchatz , L. Homer , D. Pooley , C. G. Bassa , S. F. Anderson , W. H. G. Lewin , F. Verbunt , A. K. H. Kong , R. M. Plotkin

We have completed a spectroscopic survey of X-ray point sources in eight low-redshift clusters of galaxies (0.05<z<0.31) and have identified 40 cluster members with broad-band (0.3-8 keV) X-ray luminosities between L_X = 8x10^{40} and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Martini , Daniel D. Kelson , Eunhyeuk Kim , John S. Mulchaey , Alex A. Athey

We present X-ray and radio studies of sources which are brightabove 1 GeV (F_{>1GeV} > 4e-8 ph/cm^2/s. Only 11 out of ~30 of these gamma-ray sources have been identified with lower energy counterparts: 5 blazars and 6 pulsars. Three of…

Using X-ray sources as sensitive probes of stellar dynamical interactions in globular clusters (GCs), we study the mass segregation and binary burning processes in $\omega$ Cen. We show that the mass segregation of X-ray sources is quenched…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Zhongqun Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Wei Wang , Xiangdong Li , Xiaojie Xu

Recent Chandra observations have revealed a large population of faint X-ray point sources in the Galactic Centre. The observed population consists of about 2000 faint sources in the luminosity range ~10^31-10^33 erg/s. The majority of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Ruiter , K. Belczynski , T. E. Harrison

We present the first results of an XMM-Newton EPIC observation of the luminous X-ray source population in the supergiant spiral galaxy M101. We have studied the properties of the fourteen most luminous sources, all of which have intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. P. Jenkins , T. P. Roberts , R. S. Warwick , R. E. Kilgard , M. J. Ward

We know from observations that globular clusters are very efficient catalysts in forming unusual short-period binary systems or their offspring, such as low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs; neutron stars accreting matter from low-mass stellar…

The optical identification of large number of X-ray sources such as those from the ROSAT All-Sky Survey is challenging with conventional spectroscopic follow-up observations. We investigate two ROSAT All-Sky Survey fields of size 10 * 10…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-25 J. Greiner , G. A. Richter

We present comprehensive X-ray point source catalogs of NGC~55, NGC~2403, and NGC~4214 as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. The combined archival observations have effective exposure times of 56.5 ks, 190 ks, and 79 ks for NGC~55,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 B. Binder , B. F. Williams , M. Eracleous , P. P. Plucinsky , T. J. Gaetz , S. F. Anderson , E. D. Skillman , J. J. Dalcanton , A. K. H. Kong , D. R. Weisz

We observed the main core F of the rho Ophiuchi cloud, an active star-forming region located at ~140 pc, using XMM-Newton with an exposure of 33 ks. We detect 87 X-ray sources within the 30' diameter field-of-view of the it EPIC imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Ozawa , N. Grosso , T. Montmerle

We present the results of the optical identifications of a set of X-ray sources from the all-sky surveys of INTEGRAL and SWIFT observatories. Optical data were obtained with Russian-Turkish 1.5-m Telescope (RTT150). Nine X-ray sources were…

We present results of a search for objects with H-alpha excess, such as cataclysmic variables (CVs) and chromospherically active binaries (ABs), as counterparts to X-ray sources detected with Chandra satellite observatory in six Galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-10-08 Pawel Pietrukowicz

NGC 3079 is a very active, disturbed galaxy which has been observed to have X-ray and radio ejections from it as well as an optical superbubble along its minor axis. Here we show that the brightest X-ray sources within about 40 arcmin are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Arp , E. M. Burbidge

We report a $30~\mathrm{ks}$ $Chandra$ ACIS-S survey of the globular cluster M3. Sixteen X-ray sources were detected within the half-light radius ($2.3'$) with $L_X \gtrsim 2.3 \times 10^{31}~\mathrm{erg~s^{-1}}$. We used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-14 Yue Zhao , Craig O. Heinke , Haldan N. Cohn , Phyillis M. Lugger , Adrienne M. Cool

We present the X-ray point source population of NGC 7457 based on 124 ks of Chandra observations. Previous deep Chandra observations of low mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) in early-type galaxies have typically targeted the large populations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Mark B. Peacock , Stephen E. Zepf , Arunav Kundu , Thomas J. Maccarone , Bret D. Lehmer , Anthony H. Gonzalez , Claudia Maraston

We report the detection of a weak X-ray point source coincident with the nucleus of the bulgeless disk galaxy NGC 3621, recently discovered by Spitzer to display high ionization mid-infrared lines typically associated with AGN. These…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-24 M. Gliozzi , S. Satyapal , M. Eracleous , L. Titarchuk , C. C. Cheung

Galactic accretion driven stellar X-ray sources can be divided into groups in different ways. An important division, which covers almost all known X-ray binaries, can be made according to the mass of the donor star: high-mass X-ray binaries…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan van Paradijs

We present a study of the X-ray emission from the nuclei of galaxies observed in the core of the Perseus cluster in a deep exposure with Chandra. Point sources are found coincident with the nuclei of 13 early-type galaxies, as well as the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Santra , J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian

We present 23 candidate X-ray binaries with luminosities down to 1.8x10^36 erg/s, in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4449, from observations totaling 105 ksec taken with the ACIS-S instrument on the Chandra Space Telescope. We determine…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Blagoy Rangelov , Andrea H. Prestwich , Rupali Chandar

The 13hr XMM-Newton/Chandra deep survey is the first of two extremely deep XMM-Newton fields observed by the XMM-OM consortium. A 120 ks Chandra mosaic, covering 0.2 square degrees, provides sensitive, confusion-free point source detection…