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The Galactic background radiation near the Scutum Arm was observed simultaneously with RXTE and OSSE in order to determine the spectral shape and the origin of the emission in the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray band. The spectrum in the 3 keV to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Azita Valinia , Robert L. Kinzer , Francis E. Marshall

We used the High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) onboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory to perform two observations, separated by three weeks, of the Orion Trapezium region. The zeroth order images on the Advanced CCD…

We use archival Chandra X-ray Observatory data to investigate X-ray emission from early-type galaxies in the rich z=0.06 cluster Abell 3128. By combining the X-ray count-rates from an input list of optically-selected galaxies, we obtain a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Russell J. Smith

The spectacular first light observation by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory revealed an X-ray point source near the center of the 300 yr old Cas A supernova remnant. We present an analysis of the public X-ray spectral and timing data. No…

Mars was observed in X-rays during April 3-5 2008 for 82 ksec with the Japanese Suzaku observatory. Mars has been known to emit X-rays via the scattering of solar X-rays and via the charge exchange between neutral atoms in the exosphere and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Kumi Ishikawa , Yuichiro Ezoe , Takaya Ohashi , Naoki Terada , Yoshifumi Futaana

We report on the spectral analysis of Circinus X-1 observed by the ASCA satellite in March 1998 along one orbital period. The luminosity of the source (in the 0.1-100 keV band) ranges from $2.5 \times 10^{38}$ erg s$^{-1}$ at the periastron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Iaria , T. Di Salvo , L. Burderi , N. R. Robba

We report results of an 18 ks exposure with the ACIS instrument on Chandra of the powerful z = 0.62 radio galaxy 3C 220.1. The X-ray emission separates into cluster gas of emission-weighted kT ~ 5 keV and 0.7-12 keV luminosity (to a radius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , M. J. Hardcastle , C. R. Lawrence

A Chandra X-Ray Observatory ACIS-S imaging observation is used to study the population of X-ray sources in the nearby Sab galaxy M81 (NGC 3031). A total of 177 sources are detected with 124 located within the D25 isophote to a limiting…

The nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313 has been observed with the PSPC instr- ument on board the ROSAT X-ray satellite. Ten individual sources are found. Three sources (X-1, X-2 and X-3 [SN~1978K]) are very bright (~10^40 erg/s) and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 E. J. M. Colbert , R. Petre , E. M. Schlegel , S. D. Ryder

From the 27th to the 28th January 2009, the Cassini spacecraft remotely acquired combined observations of Saturns southern aurorae at radio, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, while monitoring ion injections in the middle magnetosphere…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 L. Lamy , R. Prangé , W. Pryor , J. Gustin , S. V. Badman , H. Melin , T. Stallard , D. G. Mitchell , P. C. Brandt

An observation of the gravitationally lensed system 2016+112 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory has resolved a mystery regarding the proposed presence of a dark matter object in the lens plane of this system. The Chandra ACIS observation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 G. Chartas , M. Bautz , G. Garmire , C. Jones , D. P. Schneider

About 1000 X-ray emitting young pre-main sequence (PMS) stars distributed in mass from 0.05 to 50 solar masses are detected in an image of the Orion Nebula obtained with the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer on board the Chandra X-ray…

Centaurus X-3 is a persistent high-mass X-ray binary with the long-term light curve from the source exhibiting orbit-to-orbit intensity variations with no apparent superorbital periodicity. We used $\sim$13.5 years of MAXI/GSC data to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-24 Ajith Balu , Kinjal Roy , Hemanth Manikantan , Abhisek Tamang , Biswajit Paul

We report an observation of X-ray emission from the exciting region of Cepheus A with the Chandra/ACIS instrument. What had been an unresolved X-ray source comprising the putative power sources is now resolved into at least 3 point-like…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 S. H. Pravdo , Y. Tsuboi , A. Uzawa , Y. Ezoe

The giant planet Saturn was observed by XMM-Newton in September 2002. We present and analyse these XMM-Newton observations and compare our findings to the Chandra observations of Saturn. Contamination of the XMM-Newton data by optical light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -U. Ness , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , J. Robrade

We present high angular resolution X-ray images and spectra from two {\em Chandra} ACIS-I observations of the X-ray jet in the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A. We find that the X-ray emission from the jet is composed of a low surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. P. Kraft , W. R. Forman , C. Jones , S. S. Murray , M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall

Sub-arcsecond resolution Chandra observations of Eta Carinae reveal a 40 arcsec X 70 arcsec ring or partial shell of X-ray emission surrounding an unresolved, bright, central source. The spectrum of the central source is strongly absorbed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. D. Seward , Y. M. Butt , M. Karovska , A. Prestwich. E. M. Schlegel , M. Corcoran

We report the detection at X-rays of the radio/optical jet of 3C 371, from a short (10 ks) Chandra exposure in March 2000. We also present a new MERLIN observation at 1.4 GHz together with a renalysis of the archival HST WFPC2 F555W image.…

We report on spectral and intensity variability analysis from a Chandra/ACIS-S observation of the transient, type-I X-ray bursting low-mass X-ray binary Cen X-4. The quiescent X-ray spectrum during this observation is statistically…

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