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The time-averaged 30 ks Chandra HETGS observation of the micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 in the low hard state reveals for the first time in this source neutral K absorption edges from Fe, Si, Mg, & S. Ionized resonance absorption from H-, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. C. Lee , C. S. Reynolds , N. S. Schulz , R. Remillard , E. G. Blackman , A. C. Fabian

We present preliminary results from the first X-ray gratings spectrometer observations of a planetary nebula (PN). We have used the Chandra X-ray Observatory Low Energy Transmission Gratings Spectrometer (LETGS) to observe the bright,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joel H. Kastner , Young Sam Yu , John Houck , Ehud Behar , Raanan Nordon , Noam Soker

We report on four Chandra grating observations of the oblique magnetic rotator theta^1 Ori C (O5.5 V) covering a wide range of viewing angles with respect to the star's 1060 G dipole magnetic field. We employ line-width and centroid…

We present an analysis of a series of four consecutive Chandra high resolution transmission gratings observations, amounting to a total of 150 ks, of the Be X-ray source HD119682 (= 1WGA J1346.5-6255), a member of the new class of gamma Cas…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 J. M. Torrejon , N. S. Schulz , M. A. Nowak , P. Testa , J. J. Rodes

We study hydrogen plasmas at magnetic fields B ~ 10^{12}-10^{13} Gauss, densities ~ 10^{-3}-10^3 g/cc and temperatures T ~ 10^{5.5}-10^{6.5} K, typical of photospheres of middle-aged cooling neutron stars. We construct an analytical free…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Y. Potekhin , G. Chabrier , Yu. A. Shibanov , J. Ventura

We report X-ray observations of the field containing the ultraluminous IRAS galaxy Mrk~273 Using the ACIS-S3 instrument on board Chandra. The high resolution X-ray image, for the first time, reveals a compact hard X-ray nucleus in Mrk~273.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 X. Y. Xia , S. J. Xue , S. Mao , Th. Boller , Z. G. Deng , H. Wu

The values of electrical conductivity of plasma of stars with a magnetic field or moving in the magnetic field of the other component in a binary system could be of significant interest, since they are useful for the study of thermal…

We present a detailed analysis of Chandra X-ray observations of the lensing cluster of galaxies CL0024+17 at z=0.395. We found that the radial temperature profile is consistent with being isothermal out to ~600 kpc and that the average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Naomi Ota , Etienne Pointecouteau , Makoto Hattori , Kazuhisa Mitsuda

We observed MS 1054-0321, the highest redshift cluster of galaxies in the Einstein Medium Sensitivity Survey (EMSS), with the Chandra ACIS-S detector. We find the X-ray temperature of the cluster to be 10.4^{+1.7}_{-1.5} keV, slightly lower…

We have performed a systematic study of the Bremsstrahlung emission from the electrons in the plasma of a commercial 14.5 GHz Electron-Cyclotron Resonance Ion Source. The electronic spectral temperature and the product of ionic and…

Electron density diagnostics based on a line intensity ratio of Si X are applied to the X-ray spectra of Procyon, $\alpha$ Cen A$&$B, Capella and $\epsilon$ Eri measured with the Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) combined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Y. Liang , G. Zhao , J. R. Shi

We present an analysis of our Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) observation of the quasar MR2251-178. The warm absorber of MR2251-178 is well described by a hydrogen column density, N_H~2x10^21 cm^-2, and an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Ramírez , S. Komossa , V. Burwitz , S. Mathur

In this paper, we analyze spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 obtained with the Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS), the Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) and the European Photon Imaging Camera's (EPIC)…

We have searched for evidence of soft X-ray absorption by hot metals in the vicinity of the Galaxy in the spectra of a small sample of fifteen Type I AGN observed with the high resolution X-ray gratings on board Chandra. This is an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. McKernan , T. Yaqoob , C. S. Reynolds

We demonstrated a polarization-resolved high resolution spectroscopy of a visible emission line of highly charged tungsten ions ({\lambda}0 = 668.899 nm, Shinohara et al Phys. Scr. 90 125402) for the large helical device (LHD) plasma, where…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 K Fujii , Y Takahashi , Y Nakai , D Kato , M Goto , S Morita , M Hasuo , LHD Experiment Group

We have performed uniform analysis of a sample of 54 nearby, early-type galaxies observed with \emph{Chandra}. In this work we present the spectral results for both the diffuse Interstellar Medium, ISM, and low-mass X-ray binaries, LMXBs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-06 Alex E Athey

Thanks to the new generation of X-ray satellites such as Chandra and XMM, high resolution and high sensitivity spectra are available. In particular, for the first time, the three most intense lines (resonance, intercombination and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Delphine Porquet , Jacques Dubau

We report the results of ALMA 1-2 kpc-resolution, three rotational transition line (J=2-1, J=3-2, and J=4-3) observations of multiple dense molecular gas tracers (HCN, HCO$^{+}$, and HNC) for ten nearby (ultra)luminous infrared galaxies…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-28 Masatoshi Imanishi , Shunsuke Baba , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Takuma Izumi

Atomic Hydrogen-21 cm transition (HI) is an excellent tracer to study and understand the properties of the atomic gas in the Galaxy. Using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT), we observed 12 quasar sightlines to detect galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-19 Narendra Nath Patra , Nirupam Roy