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We present initial results and the source catalog from the NuSTAR survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (hereafter, ECDFS) - currently the deepest contiguous component of the NuSTAR extragalactic survey program. The survey covers…

Chandra observations of nearby galaxies have revealed a number of X-ray sources characterized by high luminosities ($L_X > \sim10^{36}$ erg s$^{-1}$) and $k T$ in the range $100 - 350$ eV. These ``quasisoft X-ray sources'' (QSSs) are harder…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Di Stefano , F. A. Primini , A. K. H. Kong , T. Russo

We present the results of our identification of 14 X-ray sources detected in the eastern Galactic sky ($0<l<180 \circ$ ) in the 4-12 keV energy band on the combined map of the first five all-sky surveys (from December 2019 to March 2022)…

Recent hard X-ray surveys have proven to be effective in discovering large numbers of X-ray sources that, despite the likely association with active nuclei, appear to be characterized by "peculiar" properties. Among these "exotic" source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Vignali , M. Mignoli

Aims: During the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG)/ eROSITA all-sky surveys, X-ray sources close to the South Ecliptic Pole (SEP) are observed almost every 4 hours. We aim to identify the sources exhibiting the most significant long-term X-ray…

We present the Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP) X-ray point source catalog with ~6,800 X-ray sources detected in 149 Chandra observations covering \~10 deg^2. The full ChaMP catalog sample is seven times larger than the initial…

The 500ks Chandra ACIS-I observation of the field around the $z=6.31$ quasar SDSS J1030+0524 is currently the 5th deepest extragalactic X-ray survey. The rich multi-band coverage of the field allowed for an effective identification and…

Context: The INTEGRAL hard X-ray observatory has revealed an emerging population of highly obscured X-ray binary systems through multi-wavelength observations. Previous studies have shown that many of these sources are high-mass X-ray…

Galactic X-ray sources are diverse, ranging from active M dwarfs to compact object binaries, and everything in between. The X-ray landscape of today is rich, with point source catalogs such as those from XMM-Newton, Chandra, and Swift, each…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-19 Antonio C. Rodriguez

The limited angular resolution of gamma-ray telescopes prevents the straight identification of the majority of the sources detected so far. While the only certified galactic gamma-ray emitters are associated with pulsars, more than 90% of…

We have used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to resolve spatially and spectrally the X-ray emission from the Circinus Galaxy. We report here on the nature of the X-ray emission from the off-nuclear point sources associated with the disk of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. E. Bauer , W. N. Brandt , R. M. Sambruna , G. Chartas , G. P. Garmire , S. Kaspi , H. Netzer

The first systematic study of the serendipitous X-ray source density around 10 high z (0.24<z<1.2) clusters performed with Chandra is presented. A factor \~2 overdensity has been found in 4 cluster fields. The result is statistically highly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Cappelluti , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , G. Malaguti , M. Branchesi , V. D'Elia , G. G. C. Palumbo

Procedures based on current methods to detect sources in X-ray images are applied to simulated XMM images. All significant instrumental effects are taken into account, and two kinds of sources are considered -- unresolved sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 I. Valtchanov , M. Pierre , R. Gastaud

[ABRIGED] We present the optical identification of a sample of 695 X-ray sources detected in the first 1.3 deg^2 of the XMM-COSMOS survey, down to a 0.5-2 keV (2-10 keV) limiting flux of ~10^-15 erg cm-2 s-1 (~5x10^-15 erg cm^-2 s-1). We…

Nowadays we know that the origin of the Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) is due to the integrated emission of nearby active galactic nuclei. Thus, to obtain a precise estimate of the contribution of different source classes to the CXB it is…

The deepest extragalactic X-ray observation, the 2 Ms Chandra Deep Field North (CDF-N), resolves ~80% of the total extragalactic cosmic X-ray background (CXB) in the 1-2 keV band. Recent work has shown that 70% of the remaining CXB flux is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ryan C. Hickox , Maxim Markevitch

The XMM-Large Scale Structure survey, covering an area of 11.1 sq. deg., contains more than 6000 X-ray point-like sources detected with XMM-Newton down to a flux of 3x10^-15 erg s^-1 cm^-2 in the [0.5-2] keV band, the vast majority of which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Melnyk , M. Plionis , A. Elyiv , M. Salvato , L. Chiappetti , N. Clerc , P. Gandhi , M. Pierre , T. Sadibekova , A. Pospieszalska-Surdej , J. Surdej

ROSAT, and now Chandra, X-ray images allow studies of extranuclear X-ray point sources in galaxies other than our own. X-ray observations of normal galaxies with ROSAT and Chandra have revealed that off-nuclear, compact,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Colbert , A. Ptak

We present the AEGIS-X survey, a series of deep Chandra ACIS-I observations of the Extended Groth Strip. The survey comprises pointings at 8 separate positions, each with nominal exposure 200ks, covering a total area of approximately 0.67…

We present results on a search of heavily obscured active galaxies z>1.7 using the rest-frame 9-20 keV excess for X-ray sources detected in the deep XMM-CDFS survey. Out of 176 sources selected with the conservative detection criteria (>8…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Iwasawa , R. Gilli , C. Vignali , A. Comastri , W. N. Brandt , P. Ranalli , F. Vito , N. Cappelluti , F. J. Carrera , S. Falocco , I. Georgantopoulos , V. Mainieri , M. Paolillo