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We present the first results of a wide area X-ray survey within the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Stripe 82, a 300 deg$^2$ region of the sky with a substantial investment in multi-wavelength coverage. We analyzed archival {\it Chandra}…

We present the Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) X-ray point source catalog with ~6,800 X-ray sources detected in 149 Chandra observations covering \~10 deg^2. The full ChaMP catalog sample is seven times larger than the initial…

We present the first results from an XMM-Newton serendipitous medium-deep survey, which covers nearly three square degrees. We detect a total of 1022, 495 and 100 sources, down to minimum fluxes of about 5.9 x 10^-16, 2.8 x 10^-15 and 6.2 x…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Baldi , S. Molendi , A. Comastri , F. Fiore , G. Matt , C. Vignali

We have used the Vimos VLT Deep Survey in combination with other spectroscopic, photometric and X-ray surveys from literature to detect several galaxy structures in the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS). Both a friend-of-friend based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Adami , A. Mazure , O. Ilbert , A. Cappi , the VVDS consortium

We present submillimeter observations for 136 of the 370 X-ray sources detected in the 1 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field North. Ten of the X-ray sources are significantly detected in the submillimeter. The average X-ray source in the…

We have performed a pilot Chandra survey of an off-center region of the Coma cluster to explore the X-ray properties and Luminosity Function of normal galaxies. We present results on 13 Chandra-detected galaxies with optical photometric…

We present a new detection algorithm based on the wavelet transform for the analysis of high energy astronomical images. The wavelet transform, due to its multi-scale structure, is suited for the optimal detection of point-like as well as…

We present the preliminary results of a survey that makes use of several deep exposures obtained with the X-Ray telescopes of the BeppoSAX satellite. The survey limiting sensitivity is 5 x 10^-14 cgs in the 2-10 keV band and 7 x 10^-14 cgs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 P. Giommi , F. Fiore , D. Ricci , S. Molendi , M. C. Maccarone , A. Comastri

We present the results of a very deep (500 ks) Chandra observation, along with tailored numerical simulations, of the nearest, best resolved cluster cold front in the sky, which lies 90 kpc (19 arcmin) to the north-west of M 87. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 N. Werner , J. A. ZuHone , I. Zhuravleva , Y. Ichinohe , A. Simionescu , S. W. Allen , M. Markevitch , A. C. Fabian , U. Keshet , E. Roediger , M. Ruszkowski , J. S. Sanders

We present broadband properties of sources in the Chandra Deep Field-North with spectroscopic redshifts. The high luminosity and redshift bins are dominated by typical quasars. The intermediate redshift (z = 0.7-1.5) and luminosity ranges…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Frank , Patrick S. Osmer , S. Mathur

We employ X-ray stacking techniques to examine the contribution from X-ray undetected, mid-infrared-selected sources to the unresolved, hard (6-8 keV) cosmic X-ray background (CXB). We use the publicly available, 24 micron Spitzer Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. T. Steffen , W. N. Brandt , D. M. Alexander , S. C. Gallagher , B. D. Lehmer

A deep (98.2 ks) Chandra Cycle-1 observation has revealed a wealth of discrete X-ray sources as well as diffuse emission in the nearby face-on spiral galaxy M101. From this rich dataset we have created a catalog of the 110 sources from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. D. Pence , S. L. Snowden , K. Mukai , K. D. Kuntz

We study the spectral energy distributions and evolution of a large sample of optically selected quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) that were observed in 323 Chandra images analyzed by the Chandra Multiwavelength Project…

(abridged) We present an analysis of the deepest hard X-ray survey to date of about 2500 deg^2 performed by the IBIS instrument on board INTEGRAL in the 20-60 keV band, with a total exposure time of 4 Ms. We find 34 candidate sources. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Paltani , R. Walter , I. M. McHardy , T. Dwelly , C. Steiner , T. J. -L. Courvoisier

The COSMOS-Legacy survey is a 4.6 Ms Chandra program that has imaged 2.2 deg$^2$ of the COSMOS field with an effective exposure of $\simeq$160 ks over the central 1.5 deg$^2$ and of $\simeq$80 ks in the remaining area. The survey is the…

We are carrying out sensitive X-ray observations with Chandra and XMM of type II quasars selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey based on their optical emission line properties. We present observations of four objects at redshifts 0.4 <…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Ptak , N. Zakamska , M. Strauss , J. Krolik , T. Heckman , D. Schneider , J. Brinkmann

Understanding the nature of Extremely Red Objects [EROs; (I-K)>=4] is one of the most challenging issues in observational cosmology. Here we report on the X-ray constraints provided by the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-North Survey (CDF-N). X-ray…

The first systematic study of the serendipitous X-ray source density around 10 high z (0.24<z<1.2) clusters performed with Chandra is presented. A factor \~2 overdensity has been found in 4 cluster fields. The result is statistically highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Cappelluti , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , G. Malaguti , M. Branchesi , V. D'Elia , G. G. C. Palumbo

We study the spectral properties of the unresolved cosmic X-ray background (CXRB) in the 1.5-7.0 keV energy band with the aim of providing an observational constraint on the statistical properties of those sources that are too faint to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Moretti , S. Vattakunnel , P. Tozzi , R. Salvaterra , P. Severgnini , D. Fugazza , F. Haardt , R. Gilli

A probabilistic two-component mixture model allows one to separate the diffuse background from the celestial sources within a one-step algorithm without data censoring. The background is modeled with a thin-plate spline combined with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-03 F. Guglielmetti , H. Boehringer , R. Fischer , P. Rosati , P. Tozzi