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The Chandra Source Catalog (CSC) is a virtual X-ray astrophysics facility that enables both detailed individual source studies and statistical studies of large samples of X-ray sources detected in ACIS and HRC-I imaging observations…

We report on \chandra observations of the central region of M31. By combining eight \chandra ACIS-I observations taken between 1999 and 2001, we have identified 204 X-ray sources within the central $\sim 17'\times17'$ region of M31, with a…

The Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP) has shown that the Carina Nebula displays bright, spatially-complex soft diffuse X-ray emission. Here we `sum up' the CCCP diffuse emission work by comparing the global morphology and spectrum of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Leisa K. Townsley , Patrick S. Broos , You-Hua Chu , Robert A. Gruendl , M. S. Oey , Julian M. Pittard

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…

X-ray properties of galaxy groups can unlock some of the most challenging research topics in modern extragalactic astronomy: the growth of structure and its influence on galaxy formation. Only with the advent of the Chandra and XMM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 A. Finoguenov , J. L. Connelly , L. C. Parker , D. J. Wilman , J. S. Mulchaey , R. P. Saglia , M. L. Balogh , R. G. Bower , S. L. McGee

We present a database of $BVRI$ time-series photometry of the Orion Nebula Cluster obtained with two ground-based telescopes at different longitudes to provide simultaneous coverage with the 13-d Chandra observation of the cluster. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Keivan G. Stassun , M. van den Berg , Eric Feigelson , Ettore Flaccomio

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), the x-ray component of NASA's Great Observatories, was launched on 1999, July 23 by the Space Shuttle Columbia. After satellite systems activation, the first x-rays focussed by the telescope were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. C. Weisskopf , B. Brinkman , C. Canizares , G. Garmire , S. Murray , L. P. Van Speybroeck

We report the first unambiguous detection of X-ray emission originating from Saturn with a Chandra observation, duration 65.5 ksec with ACIS-S3. Beyond the pure detection we analyze the spatial distribution of X-rays on the planetary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. -U. Ness , J. H. M. M. Schmitt , S. J. Wolk , K. Dennerl , V. Burwitz

NGC 1333, a highly active star formation region within the Perseus molecular cloud complex, has been observed with the ACIS-I detector on board the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In our image with a sensitivity limit of ~ 1e28 erg/s, we detect…

Abbreviated Abstract: The near-infrared study of the Carina Nebula in this paper builds on the results of the Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP), that detected 14368 X-ray sources in the 1.4 square-degree survey region, an automatic…

Hyperluminous supersoft X-ray sources, such as bright extragalactic sources characterized by particularly soft X-ray spectra, offer a unique opportunity to study accretion onto supermassive black holes in extreme conditions. Examples of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-22 Andrea Sacchi , Kevin Paggeot , Steven Dillmann , Juan Rafael Martinez-Galarza , Peter Kosec

X-ray transients on sub-observation timescales represent a diverse and underexplored class of astrophysical phenomena, from stellar flares and magnetar bursts to extragalactic fast transients and supernova shock breakouts. We present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 I. Saathoff , J. Larsson

We present a collection of classified X-ray sources in Globular Clusters (GCs) observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), including active binaries, cataclysmic variables, millisecond pulsars, and low-mass X-ray binaries. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Steven Chen , Oleg Kargaltsev , Hui Yang , Jeremy Hare

We have carried out a deep X-ray observation on a typical Galactic plane region with the Chandra ACIS-I instrument with unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution, and detected 274 unidentified X-ray point sources in the \~500 arcmin2…

(Abridged) We observed the X-ray bright E3 galaxy NGC 1600 and nearby group members with the Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS S3. Unresolved emission dominates the observation; however, we resolved some emission into 71 sources, most of which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory R. Sivakoff , Craig L. Sarazin , Jeffrey L. Carlin

We obtained near infrared (NIR) imaging with the Subaru Telescope of the class 0 protostar candidates in the Orion Molecular Cloud-3, two of which were discovered to have X-ray emission by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. We found strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Tsujimoto , K. Koyama , Y. Tsuboi , G. Chartas , M. Goto , N. Kobayashi , H. Terada , A. T. Tokunaga

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory (CXO), the x-ray component of NASA's Great Observatories, was launched early in the morning of 1999, July 23 by the Space Shuttle Columbia. The Shuttle launch was only the first step in placing the observatory…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. C. Weisskopf , H. D. Tananbaum , L. P. Van Speybroeck , S. L. O'Dell

We search for unresolved X-ray emission from lensed sources in the FOV of 11 CLASH clusters with Chandra data. We consider the solid angle in the lens plane corresponding to a magnification $\mu>1.5$, that amounts to a total of ~100…

We present first results of a four-epoch VLBA survey for nonthermal emission toward all 556 compact radio sources previously identified in a deep VLA survey of the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). We identify VLBA counterparts toward an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Jan Forbrich , Sergio A. Dzib , Mark J. Reid , Karl M. Menten

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…