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We make a further study of the very deep Chandra observation of the X-ray brightest galaxy cluster, A426 in Perseus. We examine the radial distribution of energy flux inferred by the quasi-concentric ripples in surface brightness, assuming…

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

We present results from a study of a nuclear emission of a nearby radio galaxy, 4C+29.30, over a broad 0.5-200 keV X-ray band. This study used new XMM-Newton (~17 ksec) and Chandra (~300 ksec) data, and archival Swift/BAT data from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 M. A. Sobolewska , Aneta Siemiginowska , G. Migliori , L. Stawarz , M. Jamrozy , D. Evans , C. C. Cheung , .

We present results from a 38 ks Chandra X-ray observation of the z=0.059 galaxy cluster A1991. The cluster has a bright X-ray core and a central temperature gradient that declines inward from 2.7 keV at 130 kpc to approximately 1.6 keV at…

We present new Spitzer IRS spectroscopy of Cygnus A, one of the most luminous radio sources in the local universe. Data on the inner 20" are combined with new reductions of MIPS and IRAC photometry as well as data from the literature to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-02-17 G. C. Privon , S. A. Baum , C. P. O'Dea , J. Gallimore , J. Noel-Storr , D. J. Axon , A. Robinson

Long Baseline Array imaging of the z=0.663 broad line radio galaxy PKS1421-490 reveals a 400 pc diameter high surface brightness hotspot at a projected distance of approximately 40kpc from the active galactic nucleus. The isotropic X-ray…

We report X-ray imaging - spectroscopy of the jet of M87 at sub arc second resolution with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The galaxy nucleus and all the knots seen at radio and optical wavelengths, as far from the nucleus as knot C, are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Wilson , Y. Yang

We present the first results from 60ks of observations of Arp 220 using the ACIS-S instrument on Chandra. We report the detection of several sources near the galaxy's nucleus, including a point source with a hard spectrum that is coincident…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. L. Clements , J. C. McDowell , S. Shaked , A. C. Baker , K. Borne , L. Colina , S. Lamb , C. Mundell

Centaurus A is one of the closest radio-galaxies to Earth. Its proximity allowed us to extensively study its active galactic nucleus but the core emission mechanism remains elusive because of local strong dust and gas obscuration. The…

We present results from deep Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the relaxed X-ray luminous galaxy cluster Abell 2204. We detect metallicity inhomogeneities in the intracluster medium on a variety of distance scales, from a ~12 kpc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian , G. B. Taylor

We present NuSTAR observations of the powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A, focusing on the central absorbed active galactic nucleus (AGN). Cygnus A is embedded in a cool-core galaxy cluster, and hence we also examine archival XMM-Newton data to…

We present simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations spanning 3-78 keV of the nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A (Cen A). The accretion geometry around the central engine in Cen A is still debated, and we investigate possible…

We present a detailed imaging analysis of 260 ks of sub-arcsecond resolution Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS-S) observations of the nearby Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 5728. Our study focuses on the bright and diffuse soft X-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-01 Anna Trindade Falcao , G. Fabbiano , M. Elvis , A. Paggi , W. P. Maksym

We present results from deeper {\em Chandra} observations of the southwest radio lobe of Centaurus A, first described by Kraft et al. (2003). We find that the sharp X-ray surface brightness discontinuity extends around $\sim$75% of the…

We use a combination of high spatial resolution optical and near-IR spectroscopic data to make a detailed study of the kinematics of the NLR gas in the near-nuclear regions of the powerful, FRII radio galaxy Cygnus A (z=0.0560), with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Tadhunter , A. Marconi , D. Axon , K. Wills , T. G. Robinson , N. Jackson

We present results from deep, wideband, high spatial and spectral resolution observations of the nearby luminous radio galaxy Cygnus A with the Jansky Very Large Array. The high surface brightness of this source enables detailed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-10 M. Lerato Sebokolodi , Rick Perley , Jean Eilek , Chris Carilli , Oleg Smirnov , Robert Laing , Eric Greisen , Michael Wise

We report new HST WFPC2 and NICMOS observations of the center of the nearest radio galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) and discuss their implications for our understanding of the active nucleus and jet. We detect the active nucleus in the near-IR…

We use Gemini Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrograph (NIFS) observations of the inner 3.5$\times$3.5 kpc$^2$ of the radio galaxy Cygnus A to map the gas excitation and kinematics at a spatial resolution of 200 pc. The emission of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Rogemar A. Riffel

We present J, H and K-band images and 0.9-2.5 micron spectra of the nuclear regions of Centaurus A obtained with IRIS on the AAT. While K band has a point source coincident with the nucleus, at H and J we identify diffuse structure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Bryant , R. W. Hunstead

Here we present Spitzer Space Telescope imaging of Cyg A with the Infrared Array Camera, resulting in the detection of the high-energy tails or cut-offs in the synchrotron spectra for all four hotspots of this archetype radio galaxy. When…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 L. Stawarz , C. C. Cheung , D. E. Harris , M. Ostrowski

We present new X-ray observations of the nucleus, jet and extended emission of the nearby radio galaxy NGC 6251 using the Chandra/ACIS-S camera, together with a reanalysis of archival Chandra/ACIS-I and XMM-Newton/EPIC data. We find that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Evans , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw