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Using the HEAO1 A2 full sky, 2-10 keV X-ray map evidence is found for the presence of diffuse X-ray emission in the plane of the local supercluster. Fitting this diffuse component with a simple ``pillbox'' model implies a volume X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen P. Boughn

We use a very deep 900 ks Chandra X-ray observation of the core of the Perseus cluster to measure and confirm the hard X-ray emission detected from a previous analysis. By fitting a model made up of multiple temperature components plus a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian

(abridged) We present an analysis of Chandra X-ray observations of a sample of eight dwarf starburst galaxies (I Zw 18, VII Zw 403, NGC 1569, NGC 3077, NGC 4214, NGC 4449, NGC 5253, and He 2-10). Extended, diffuse X-ray emission is detected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juergen Ott , Fabian Walter , Elias Brinks

Using the Chandra ACIS-I instruments, we have carried out a deep X-ray observation on the Galactic plane region at (l,b) ~ (28.5, 0.0), where no discrete X-ray sources have been known previously. We have detected, as well as strong diffuse…

We investigate a sample of 14 clusters of galaxies observed with XMM-Newton in a search for soft X-ray excess emission. In five of these clusters a significant soft excess is evident. This soft X-ray excess is compared with the thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. S. Kaastra , R. Lieu , T. Tamura , F. B. S. Paerels , J. W. den Herder

The X-ray emission properties from the hot thermalized plasma that results from the collisions of individual stellar winds and supernovae ejecta within rich and compact star clusters are discussed. We propose a simple analytical way of…

We report here the results of the first Chandra X-Ray Observatory observations of the globular cluster M28 (NGC 6626). 46 X-ray sources are detected, of which 12 lie within one core radius of the center. We show that the apparently extended…

We report the detection of diffuse hot gas in M31, using archival Chandra observations which allow us to map out a 30' by 30' field (covering a galactocentric radius up to 4.5 kpc) and to detect sources in the galaxy down to a 0.5-8 keV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Li , Q. D. Wang

Using a 90 ks Chandra ACIS-S observation in the 0.3--7 keV band, along with complementary Low-Frequency Array and Karl G.~Jansky Very Large Array data in the 120--168 MHz and 1--2 GHz ranges, we study the diffuse emission around the nearby…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-19 Q. Daniel Wang , Juergen Ott

(Abridged) The inner couple hundred pcs of our Galaxy is characterized by significant amount of synchrotron-emitting gas, which appears to co-exist with a large reservoir of molecular gas. The spatial correlation between fluorescent Fe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Muno , M. Wardle , D. C. Lis

We compare the soft diffuse X-ray emission from Chandra images of 12 nearby intermediate inclination spiral galaxies to the morphology seen in Halpha, molecular gas, and mid-infrared emission. We find that diffuse X-ray emission is often…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Tyler , A. C. Quillen , A. La Page , G. H. Rieke

The Galactic diffuse soft gamma-ray (30-800 keV) emission has been measured from the Galactic Center by the HIREGS balloon-borne germanium spectrometer to determine the spectral characteristics and origin of the emission. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. E. Boggs , R. P. Lin , S. Slassi-Sennou , W. Coburn , R. M. Pelling

The compact stellar clusters have emerged as particularly promising candidates for cosmic rays (CR) accelerators. The star clusters, recently observed in gamma-rays, are also known sources of non-thermal X-ray emission, which is due to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Roman Krivonos , Alexey Vikhlinin , Andrei Bykov , Sergey Sazonov , Maïca Clavel

Deep Chandra exposures reveal the presence of diffuse X-ray emission with a luminosity of 1.3x10^{39} ergs s^{-1} from the spiral galaxy NGC 3184. This appears to be truly diffuse thermal emission distinct from the low-luminosity LMXB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. E. Doane , W. T. Sanders , E. M. Wilcots , M. Juda

X-ray mosaics of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) taken with the ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) have revealed extensive diffuse X-ray emission, indicative of hot >= 10^6 K gas associated with this irregular galaxy on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 S. Points , Y. -H. Chu , S. L. Snowden , R. C. Smith

High resolution VLA observations of the Arches cluster near the Galactic center show evidence of continuum emission at $\lambda$3.6, 6, 20 and 90cm. The continuum emission at $\lambda$90cm is particularly striking because thermal sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Nord , M. Wardle , C. Law , C. Lang , T. J. W. Lazio

The Arches cluster is a young, densely packed massive star cluster in our Galaxy that shows a high level of star formation activity. The nature of the extended non-thermal X-ray emission around the cluster remains unclear. The observed…

We report the discovery of an X-ray pulsar in the young, massive Galactic star cluster Westerlund 1. We detected a coherent signal from the brightest X-ray source in the cluster, CXO J164710.2-455216, during two Chandra observations on 2005…

We have studied the face-on, barred spiral M83 (NGC 5236) with Chandra. Eighty-one point sources are detected (above 3.5-sigma) in the ACIS S3 image: 15 of them are within the inner 16 arcsec region (starburst nucleus, resolved for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Soria , Kinwah Wu

We reanalyze the ROSAT PSPC X-ray spectro-photometric observations of HCG 16. Its X-ray morphology resembles its morphology at 20 cm, seen by the NVSS. We detect diffuse emission in 8 regions filling half of the 200/h50 kpc (8.7") radius…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dos Santos , G. A. Mamon