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We present the results of a detailed spectral analysis of optically faint hard X-ray sources in the Chandra deep fields selected on the basis of their high X-ray to optical flux ratio (X/O). The stacked spectra of high X/O sources in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francesca Civano , Andrea Comastri , Marcella Brusa

We report on Chandra observations of the bright ultra-luminous X-ray (ULX) source in NGC3921. Previous XMM observations reported in the literature show the presence of a bright ULX at a 0.5-10 keV luminosity of 2x10^40 erg/s. Our Chandra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 P. G. Jonker , M. Heida , M. A. P. Torres , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , A. C. Fabian , E. M. Ratti , G. Miniutti , D. J. Walton , T. P. Roberts

We present the results of Chandra observations of off-nuclear X-ray sources in the spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194). 113 X-ray sources have been detected in the field of view and 84 among them project within the disk of NGC 5194. Six and twenty…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuichi Terashima , Andrew S. Wilson

We report the discovery of a new ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the nearby galaxy NGC 4244 from Chandra archival data. The source, 1WGAJ1216.9+3743, is one of the least luminous and softest ULXs discovered so far. Its X-ray spectrum is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Cagnoni , R. Turolla , A. Treves , J. -S. Huang , D. W. Kim , M. Elvis , A. Celotti

We report the results of Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of a new outburst of an ultra-luminous X-ray source in M101. During a Chandra monitoring observation of M101, M101 ULX-1 was found to be in outburst in 2004 December, the second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. K. H. Kong , R. Di Stefano

We present results from three nearly simultaneous NuSTAR and Chandra monitoring observations between 2012 Sep 2 and 2012 Nov 16 of local star-forming galaxy NGC 253. The 3-40 keV NuSTAR intensity of the inner 20 arcsec (~400 pc) nuclear…

We present our first results from 130 ks of X-ray observations obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We reach a flux of 2 X 10^(-16) erg s^(-1) cm^(-2) in the 0.5-2 keV soft band and 2 X…

We present near-IR imaging of a sample of the faint, hard X-ray sources discovered in the 2001 Chandra ACIS-I survey towards the Galactic Centre (GC) (Wang et al. 2002). These ~800 discrete sources represent an important and previously…

We present an analysis of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) population in 75 Virgo cluster late-type galaxies, including all those with a star formation rate >~ 1 M_{sun}/yr and a representative sample of the less star-forming ones. This…

Chandra has performed a 1.4 Ms survey centred on the Hubble Deep Field-North (HDF-N), probing the X-ray Universe 55-550 times deeper than was possible with pre-Chandra missions. We describe the detected point and extended X-ray sources and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. N. Brandt , D. M. Alexander , F. E. Bauer , A. E. Hornschemeier

We present the second in a series of results in which we have searched for undiscovered neutron stars in supernova remnants (SNRs). This paper deals with the largest six SNRs in our sample, too large for Chandra or XMM-Newton to cover in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. L. Kaplan , B. M. Gaensler , S. R. Kulkarni , P. O. Slane

Over the past 13 years, the Chandra X-ray Observatory's ability to provide high resolution X-ray images and spectra have established it as one of the most versatile and powerful tools for astrophysical research in the 21st century. Chandra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Martin C. Weisskopf

We report the identification of a recurrent ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX), a highly absorbed X-ray source (possibly a background AGN), and a young supernova remnant near the center of the starburst galaxy M82. From a series of Chandra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. K. H. Kong , Y. J. Yang , P. -Y. Hsieh , D. S. Y. Mak , C. S. J. Pun

We report the results of a deep search for faint Chandra X-ray sources, radio sources, and optical counterparts in the nearby, core-collapsed globular cluster, NGC 6752. We combined new and archival Chandra imaging to detect 51 X-ray…

We analyse a Chandra observation of the rich globular cluster NGC 362, finding 33 X-ray sources within 1' (1.2 half-mass radii) of the cluster center. Spectral analysis of the brightest source (X1) shows blackbody-like emission, indicating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-26 Gourav Kumawat , Craig O. Heinke , Haldan N. Cohn , Phyllis M. Lugger

We report Chandra observations of the Scd galaxy NGC 2139, which is known to host a recently formed (10^7.6 yrs) nuclear star cluster. The star cluster is undetected in X-rays, with an upper bound on 0.5-7 keV luminosity of L_X < 7.1 x…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Joseph C. Shields , Torsten Boeker , Luis C. Ho , Hans-Walter Rix , Roeland P. van der Marel , C. Jakob Walcher

After almost 2.5 years of actively accreting, the neutron star X-ray transient and eclipsing binary MXB 1659-29 returned to quiescence in 2001 September. We report on a Chandra observation of this source taken a little over a month after…

The Chandra X-ray Observatory grating spectrometers allow study of stellar spectra at resolutions on the order of 1000. Prior x-ray observatories' low resolution data have shown that nearly all classes of stars emit x-rays. Chandra reveals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David P. Huenemoerder

We investigated the X-ray spectral properties of a collection of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) within a sample of 15 nearby early-type galaxies observed with Chandra. We find that the spectrum of the sum of the sources in a given galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jimmy A. Irwin , Alex E. Athey , Joel N. Bregman

We combine emission line and X-ray luminosities for 45 sources from the Chandra Deep Field South (CDF-S), and seven HELLAS sources, to obtain a new sample of 52 X-ray selected type-II active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Eighteen of our sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hagai Netzer , V. Mainieri , P. Rosati , Benny Trakhtenbrot
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