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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

The TeV gamma-ray point source HESSJ1832-093 remains unidentified despite extensive multi-wavelength studies. The gamma-ray emission could originate in a very compact pulsar wind nebula or an X-ray binary system composed of the X-ray source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 P. Eger , H. Laffon , P. Bordas , E. de Ona Whilhelmi , J. Hinton , G. Puehlhofer

Here we report on X-ray observations of ten 17-60 keV sources discovered by the INTEGRAL satellite. The primary new information is sub-arcsecond positions obtained by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In six cases (IGR J17040-4305, IGR…

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) satellite has detected in excess of 1000 sources in the ~20-100 keV band during its surveys of the sky over the past 17 years. We obtained 5 ks observations of 15 unclassified…

Context. The discovery of the unique source HESS J1507-622 in the very high energy (VHE) range (100 GeV-100 TeV) opened new possibilities to study the parent population of ultra-relativistic particles found in astrophysical sources and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 O. Tibolla , S. Kaufmann , K. Kosack

We present a study of the radio environment of the gamma-ray source 3EG J1828+0142. This source presents a very high variability index in its gamma emission and a steep high-energy spectral index $\Gamma\sim-2.8$. Large-scale radio maps at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge A. Combi , Gustavo E. Romero , Diego F. Torres , Brian Punsly

We observed the first unidentified TeV gamma-ray source TeV J2032+4130 with Suzaku. Owing to Suzaku's high sensitivity for detection of diffuse X-ray emission, we found two small structures in the TeV emitting region. One of them is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Hiroshi Murakami , Shunji Kitamoto , Akiko Kawachi , Takeshi Nakamori

We report on VERITAS observations at energies above 200 GeV of known or potential galactic gamma-ray sources. The observed objects comprise pulsars, pulsar wind nebulae, high-mass X-ray binaries and gamma-ray sources with unknown…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 G. Maier

We report the ASCA and Chandra discovery of a diffuse X-ray source in the Galactic center region. The X-ray spectrum is fitted with a non-equilibrium ionization (NEI) plasma model of about 6-keV temperature. The model requires higher than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Atsushi Senda , Hiroshi Murakami , Katsuji Koyama

We have examined Chandra observations of the recently discovered X-ray thread G0.13-0.11 in the Galactic center Radio Arc region. Part of the {\sl Chandra} data was studied by Yusef-Zadeh, Law, & Wardle (2002), who reported the detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Q. Daniel Wang , Fangjun Lu , Cornelia C. Lang

We present Chandra ACIS-I X-ray observations of 0FGL J1311.9-3419 and 0FGL J1653.4-0200, the two brightest high Galactic latitude (|b|>10 deg) gamma-ray sources from the 3 month Fermi-LAT bright source list that are still unidentified. Both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 C. C. Cheung , D. Donato , N. Gehrels , K. V. Sokolovsky , M. Giroletti

Millisecond pulsar PSR J0218+4232 shows remarkable high-energy properties: very hard pulsed X-ray emission up to ~10 keV and a likely detection of high-energy gamma-rays (> 100 MeV) with a soft spectrum. The relative phasing of the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen

We report on the detection of two elongated X-ray features G359.89-0.08 and G359.54+0.18 in the Galactic center (GC) region using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. G359.89-0.08 is an elongated X-ray feature located $\sim$2\arcmin in projection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Lu , Q. D. Wang , C. C. Lang

We present an X-ray study of the field containing the extended TeV source HESS J1834-087 using data obtained with the XMM-Newton telescope. Previously, the coincidence of this source with both the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) W41 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. Mukherjee , E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

We present an analysis of Chandra ACIS observations of the field of TeV J2032+4130, the first unidentified TeV source, detected serendipitously by HEGRA. This deep (48.7 ksec) observation of the field follows up on an earlier 5 ksec Chandra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Mukherjee , E. V. Gotthelf , J. P. Halpern

We report the detection of 10 new X-ray filaments using the data from the {\sl Chandra} X-ray satellite for the inner $6^{\prime}$ ($\sim 15$ parsec) around the Galactic center (GC). All these X-ray filaments are characterized by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. J. Lu , T. T. Yuan , Y. -Q. Lou

We present a Chandra X-ray observation of G12.82-0.02, a shell-like radio supernova remnant coincident with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1813-178. We resolve the X-ray emission from the co-located ASCA source into a compact object…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. V. Gotthelf , D. J. Helfand

We have made a multiwavelength study of the overlapping error boxes of the unidentified gamma-ray sources TeV J2032+4130 and 3EG J2033+4118 in the direction of the Cygnus OB2 association (d = 1.7 kpc) in order to search for a point-source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Mukherjee , J. P. Halpern , E. V. Gotthelf , M. Eracleous , N. Mirabal

2HWC J1928+177 is a Galactic TeV gamma-ray source detected by the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory up to ~ 56 TeV. The HAWC source, later confirmed by H.E.S.S., still remains unidentified as a dark accelerator since there is…

We present the results of two Chandra X-ray Observatory ( CXO) observations of TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1741-302A/B. Our analysis also includes GeV gamma-ray and radio data. We investigate whether there is any connection between HESS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-13 Jeremy Hare , Blagoy Rangelov , Eda Sonbas , Oleg Kargaltsev
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