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We investigate the integrated far-ultraviolet (FUV) emission from globular clusters. We present new FUV photometry of M~87's clusters based on archival HST WFPC2 F170W observations. We use these data to test the reliability of published…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Mark B. Peacock , Stephen E. Zepf , Arunav Kundu , Julia Chael

The Virgo and A1795 clusters of galaxies were re-observed by EUVE with {\it in situ} background measurements by pointing at small offsets. Earlier, a similar re-observational strategy applied to the cluster A2199 revealed that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Max Bonamente , Richard Lieu , Jonathan P. D. Mittaz

We report a new analysis of diffuse EUV emission in clusters of galaxies. We find the cluster emission is strongly influenced by the variation of the telescope sensitivity over the field of view and upon the details of the subtraction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stuart Bowyer , Thomas W. Berghoefer , Eric Korpela

We present the results of a search for Extreme Ultraviolet emission in A4059, a cluster with an X-ray emitting cluster gas. Our analysis of Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) Deep Survey observations of this cluster shows that it is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas W. Berghoefer , Stuart Bowyer , Eric Korpela

We have searched the far-UV spectra of five clusters of galaxies observed with the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT) for emission in the resonance lines of O VI (1032,1038 A) and C IV (1548,1551 A). We do not detect significant emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Van Dyke Dixon , Mark Hurwitz , Henry C. Ferguson

We have obtained FUV spectra of two clusters of galaxies with FUSE, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer. The Coma cluster was observed for a total of 28.6 ksec, the Virgo cluster for 10.9 ksec. Neither spectrum shows significant O VI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. V. Dixon , S. Sallmen , M. Hurwitz , R. Lieu

Intra-cluster (IC) populations are expected to be a natural result of the hierarchical assembly of clusters, yet their low space densities make them difficult to detect and study. We present the first definitive kinematic detection of an IC…

Recent observations with the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) suggest that at least some clusters of galaxies are luminous sources of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. It is not clear yet whether EUV emission is a general feature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Scott W. Randall , Craig L. Sarazin

We calculate the energy distribution of the relativistic particles injected in the ICM during a phase of reacceleration of the relativistic particles in the cluster volume. We apply our results to the case of the Coma cluster in which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Brunetti , G. Setti , L. Feretti , G. Giovannini

We report the detection of both soft and hard excess X-ray emission in the cluster of galaxies A 2199, based upon spatially resolved spectroscopy with data from the BeppoSAX, EUVE and ROSAT missions. The excess emission is visible at radii…

We search for MeV gamma-ray emission between 0.75-30 MeV from five galaxy clusters, viz. Coma, VIRGO, SPT-CL J2012-5649, Bullet, and El Gordo, using archival data from the COMPTEL telescope. For this purpose we use three search templates:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Siddhant Manna , Shantanu Desai

Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiations (10--117 nm) from host stars play important roles in the ionization, heating, and mass loss from exoplanet atmospheres. Together with the host star's Lyman-alpha and far-UV (117--170 nm) radiation, EUV…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Jeffrey L. Linsky , Juan Fontenla , Kevin France

The detection of diffuse radio emission associated with clusters of galaxies indicates populations of relativistic leptons infusing the intracluster medium. Those electrons and positrons are either injected into and accelerated directly in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Ackermann et al.

We report new EUV data on the cluster of galaxies Abell 1795. These data were taken well away from a detector defect which could have compromised earlier results on this cluster. Our new observations confirm the validity of the original…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stuart Bowyer , Thomas Berghoefer , Eric Korpela

M87 is a giant elliptical galaxy located in the centre of the Virgo cluster, which harbours a supermassive black hole of mass 6.4x10^9 M_sun, whose activity is responsible for the extended (80 kpc) radio lobes that surround the galaxy. The…

We compare optical and near infrared colours of globular clusters in M87, the central giant elliptical in Virgo, and NGC 4478, an intermediate luminosity galaxy in Virgo, close in projection to M87. Combining V and I photometry obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Markus Kissler-Patig , Jean P. Brodie , Dante Minniti

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are considered to be one of the most appropriate sources of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs, $E \gtrsim 10^{18} \mathrm{~eV}$). Radiogalaxy Virgo A (M87) in the centre of a cluster of galaxies Virgo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Oleh Kobzar , Bohdan Hnatyk , Volodymyr Marchenko , Oleksandr Sushchov

We have observed the giant elliptical galaxy M87 during the Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Galaxy Evolution (VESTIGE), a blind narrow-band Halpha+[NII] imaging survey of the Virgo cluster carried out with MegaCam at the Canada French…

M87, the central galaxy of the Virgo cluster, is the first radio galaxy detected in the TeV regime. The structure of its jet, which is not pointing toward the line of sight, is spatially resolved in X-ray (by Chandra), in optical and in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 R. M. Wagner , M. Beilicke , F. Davies , H. Krawczynski , D. Mazin , M. Raue , S. Wagner , R. C. Walker

Using data from the ROSAT Wide Field Camera all-sky survey, we have established upper limits to the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) flux from a sample of 30 bright, nearby, non-active spiral galaxies. These galaxies were chosen to be those most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Read , T. J. Ponman