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We present comprehensive X-ray point source catalogs of NGC~55, NGC~2403, and NGC~4214 as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. The combined archival observations have effective exposure times of 56.5 ks, 190 ks, and 79 ks for NGC~55,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 B. Binder , B. F. Williams , M. Eracleous , P. P. Plucinsky , T. J. Gaetz , S. F. Anderson , E. D. Skillman , J. J. Dalcanton , A. K. H. Kong , D. R. Weisz

We study the statistical properties of faint X-ray sources detected in the Chandra Bulge Field. The unprecedented sensitivity of the Chandra observations allows us to probe the population of faint Galactic X-ray sources down to luminosities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Revnivtsev , S. Sazonov , W. Forman , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev

Our neighbouring large spiral galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy (M 31 or NGC 224), is an ideal target to study the X-ray source population of a nearby galaxy. NuSTAR observed the central region of M 31 in 2015 and allows studying the population…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-01 H. Stiele , A. K. H. Kong

We show with a short Chandra HRC-S exposure that the powerful X-ray source coincident with the nucleus of M33 is unresolved at the highest spatial resolution available to date (0"4). The source flux is variable, doubling during the 5 ks…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Dubus , P. A. Charles , K. S. Long

We present Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-S3 X-ray imaging observations and VLT/FORS2 and Hubble Space Telescope optical observations of two low-density Galactic globular clusters; NGC 6366 and M55. We detect 16 X-ray sources with 0.5-6.0…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. G. Bassa , D. Pooley , F. Verbunt , L. Homer , S. F. Anderson , W. H. G. Lewin

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…

We present the first study of the X-ray sources in one of the most metal-rich globular clusters in the Galaxy, NGC 6528. Using relatively deep (66 ksec) archival imaging from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, we identify 18 sources within the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 Bernard Leal , Kwangmin Oh , Jay Strader , Steve E. Zepf , Kristen Dage , S. Kim , C. Y. Hui

We observed the globular cluster NGC 6652 with Chandra for 47.5 ks, detecting six known X-ray sources, as well as five previously undetected X-ray sources. Source A (XB 1832-330) is a well-known bright low-mass X-ray binary (LXMB). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 W. S. Stacey , C. O. Heinke , H. N. Cohn , P. M. Lugger , A. Bahramian

We have obtained a deep 8-field XMM-Newton mosaic of M33 covering the galaxy out to the D$_{25}$ isophote and beyond to a limiting 0.2--4.5 keV unabsorbed flux of 5$\times$10$^{-16}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (L${>}$4$\times$10$^{34}$ erg…

The emission-line dwarf galaxy NGC 3413 is known to host a bright X-ray source near its optical center. The 0.3-10 keV luminosity of this source is estimated to be approximately 10$^{39}$ erg$s^{-1}$ potentially qualifying it as an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 E. Sonbas , K. S. Dhuga , E. Göğüş

Four XMM-Newton observations of the core of M31, spaced at 6 month intervals, show that the brightest point X-ray source, RX J0042.6+4115, has a 0.4-10 keV luminosity of ~5 10^38 erg/s, and exhibits significant variability in intensity and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Barnard , U. Kolb , J. P. Osborne

We investigate the serendipitous X-ray source population revealed in XMM-Newton observations targeted in the Galactic Plane within the region 315<l<45 and |b|<2.5 deg. Our study focuses on a sample of 2204 X-ray sources at intermediate to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 R. S. Warwick , D. Perez-Ramirez , K. Byckling

We present the first results of an XMM-Newton EPIC observation of the luminous X-ray source population in the supergiant spiral galaxy M101. We have studied the properties of the fourteen most luminous sources, all of which have intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. P. Jenkins , T. P. Roberts , R. S. Warwick , R. E. Kilgard , M. J. Ward

The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33) has acquired 7 fields of ACIS data covering M33 with 200 ks of exposure in each field. A catalog from the first 10 months of data, along with archival Chandra observations dating back to the year…

We examined 134 Chandra observations of the population of X-ray sources associated with globular clusters (GCs) in the central region of M31. These are expected to be X-ray binary systems (XBs), consisting of a neutron star or black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Barnard , M. Garcia , S. S. Murray

NGC 253 is a local, star-bursting spiral galaxy with strong X-ray emission from hot gas, as well as many point sources. We have conducted a spectral survey of the X-ray population of NGC 253 using a deep XMM-Newton observation.NGC 253 only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Barnard , L. Shaw Greening , U. Kolb

We present Chandra studies of the X-ray binary (XRB) populations in the bulge and ring regions of the ring galaxy NGC 1291. We detect 169 X-ray point sources in the galaxy, 75 in the bulge and 71 in the ring, utilizing the four available…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 B. Luo , G. Fabbiano , T. Fragos , D. -W. Kim , K. Belczynski , N. J. Brassington , S. Pellegrini , P. Tzanavaris , Junfeng Wang , A. Zezas

We examine the X-ray point source population and 2-10 keV luminosity for two galaxies with high star formation rates (SFRs), NGC 4194 and NGC 7541. The X-ray point source luminosity function (XLF) for these two galaxies is consistent with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Philip Kaaret , Almudena Alonso-Herrero

We have carried out an in-depth study of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) detected in the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 3115, using the Megasecond Chandra X-Ray Visionary Project observation (total exposure time 1.1 Ms). In total we found 136…

[abridged] We investigate the nature of the luminous X-ray source population detected in a (72 ks) Chandra ACIS-S observation of NGC 4038/39, the Antennae galaxies. We derive the average X-ray spectral properties of sources in different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-29 A. Zezas , G. Fabbiano , A. H. Rots , S. S. Murray