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We present optical and X-ray data for a sample of serendipitous XMM-Newton sources that are selected to have 0.5-2 keV vs 2-4.5 keV X-ray hardness ratios which are harder than the X-ray background. The sources have 2-4.5 keV X-ray flux >=…

We observed the nearby galaxy M~51 (NGC 5194) with BeppoSAX. The X-ray properties of the nucleus below 10 keV are almost the same as the ASCA results regarding the hard component and the neutral Fe K$\alpha$ line, but the intensity is about…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yasushi Fukazawa , Naoko Iyomoto , Aya Kubota , Yukari Matsumoto , Kazuo Makishima

The Galactic diffuse soft gamma-ray (30-800 keV) emission has been measured from the Galactic Center by the HIREGS balloon-borne germanium spectrometer to determine the spectral characteristics and origin of the emission. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Boggs , R. P. Lin , S. Slassi-Sennou , W. Coburn , R. M. Pelling

We present an X-ray study of the massive edge-on Sa galaxy, Sombrero (M~104; NGC 4594), based on XMM-Newton and Chandra observations. A list of 62 XMM-Newton and 175 Chandra discrete X-ray sources is provided. At energies above 2 keV, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Zhiyuan Li , Q. Daniel Wang , Salman Hameed

The ASCA results of the starburst galaxy M82 are presented. The X-rays in the 0.5--10 keV band exhibit a thin thermal spectrum with emission lines from highly ionized magnesium, silicon, and sulfur, as well as a hard tail extending to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Takeshi Go Tsuru , Hisamitsu Awaki , Katsuji Koyama , Andy Ptak

Galactic X-ray emission is a manifestation of various high-energy phenomena and processes. The brightest X-ray sources are typically accretion-powered objects: active galactic nuclei and low- or high-mass X-ray binaries. Such objects with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Q. Daniel Wang

Optical spectroscopy has enabled us to identify the optical counterparts to over 200 faint X-ray sources to a flux limit of S_(0.5-2keV)=4x10^-15 erg s^-1 cm^-2 on 5 deep ROSAT fields. Here we present a spectral analysis of all the X-ray…

We report here on the first pointed X-ray observation of the supernova remnant (SNR) G330.2+1.0. The X-ray morphology is characterized by an extended shell. Its X-ray spectrum is well represented by a single power-law function with a photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Torii , H. Uchida , K. Hasuike , H. Tsunemi , Y. Yamaguchi , S. Shibata

We present optical spectra and near-infrared imaging of a sample of serendipitous X-ray sources detected in the field of Chandra observations of the A2390 cluster of galaxies. The sources have 0.5-7 keV fluxes of 0.6-8 x 10^{-14} erg…

The newly discovered supernova remnant G266.2-1.2 (RX J0852.0--0462), along the line of sight to the Vela SNR, was observed with ASCA for 120 ks. We find that the X-ray spectrum is featureless, and well described by a power law, extending…

We present the first dedicated X-ray study of the supernova remnant (SNR) G32.8-0.1 (Kes 78) with Suzaku. X-ray emission from the whole SNR shell has been detected for the first time. The X-ray morphology is well correlated with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Aya Bamba , Yukikatsu Terada , John Hewitt , Robert Petre , Lorella Angelini , Samar Safi-Harb , Ping Zhou , Fabrizio Bocchino , Makoto Sawada

We report the results of a 50 ks Chandra observation of the recently discovered radio object G141.2+5.0, presumed to be a pulsar-wind nebula. We find a moderately bright unresolved X-ray source which we designate CXOU J033712.8 615302…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski

The ~1 Ms Chandra Deep Field North observation is used to study the extended X-ray sources in the region surrounding the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N), yielding the most sensitive probe of extended X-ray emission at cosmological distances…

We present the X-ray properties of a sample of 17 radio sources observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory as part of a project aimed at studying the X-ray emission from their radio jets. In this paper, we concentrate on the X-ray…

We present X-ray and multiwavelength studies of a sample of eight high-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with disc-like H\beta emission-line profiles selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These sources have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Luo , W. N. Brandt , M. Eracleous , Jian Wu , P. B. Hall , A. Rafiee , D. P. Schneider , Jianfeng Wu

{\it Chandra} Galactic Center Survey detected $\sim 800$ X-ray point-like sources in the $2^{\circ} \times 0.8^{\circ}$ sky region around the Galactic Center. In this paper, we study the spatial and luminosity distributions of these sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. F. Wu , S. N. Zhang , F. J. Lu , Y. K. Jin

We report the discovery of three X-ray sources within the radio shell G318.2+0.1, one of which may be extended. Two of the sources were detected during the \sax Galactic Plane Survey and one was found in archival \ros data. The fainter \sax…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Bocchino , A. N. Parmar , S. Mereghetti , M. Orlandini , A. Santangelo , L. Angelini

We present a systematic analysis of the X-ray spectral properties of a sample of 22 ``narrow-line'' Seyfert 1 galaxies for which data are available from the ASCA public archive. Many of these sources, which were selected on the basis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Vaughan , J. Reeves , R. Warwick , R , Edelson

We present an analysis of the X-ray spectral properties of 61 hard X-ray selected (2-8 keV) sources from the bright ($f_{2-8 keV}>10^{-14}$ \funits) {\it XMM-Newton}/2dF survey. This comprises of 9 {\it XMM-Newton} pointings in the North…

We study the X-ray properties of LINER sources with definite detection of a broad H(alpha) emission line in their optical spectra, LINER 1s from Ho et al. sample. These objects preferentially harbor a low luminosity active nucleus at the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Younes , D. Porquet , B. Sabra , J. N. Reeves