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AX J1745.6-2901 is an X-ray binary located at only 1.45 arcmin from Sgr A*, showcasing a strong X-ray dust scattering halo. We combine Chandra and XMM-Newton observations to study the halo around this X-ray binary. Our study shows two major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-22 Chichuan Jin , Gabriele Ponti , Frank Haberl , Randall Smith

We provide an empirical list of the Galactic dispersion measure ($DM_{Gal}$) contribution to the extragalactic fast radio bursts along 72 sightlines. It is independent of any model of the Galaxy, i.e., we do not assume the density of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-04 Sanskriti Das , Smita Mathur , Anjali Gupta , Fabrizio Nicastro , Yair Krongold

The Chandra X-ray Observatory grating spectrometers allow study of stellar spectra at resolutions on the order of 1000. Prior x-ray observatories' low resolution data have shown that nearly all classes of stars emit x-rays. Chandra reveals…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David P. Huenemoerder

We have performed, in October 2005, a deep Chandra X-ray observation of HH 154. Comparison with the previous (2001) Chandra observation allows to detect proper motion down to the level predicted by models of X-ray emitting shocks in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Favata , R. Bonito , G. Micela , M. Fridlund , S. Orlando , S. Sciortino , G. Peres

We present the spatial clustering properties of 1466 X-ray selected AGN compiled from the Chandra CDF-N, CDF-S, eCDF-S, COSMOS and AEGIS fields in the 0.5-8 keV band. The X-ray sources span the redshift interval 0<z<3 and have a median…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Koutoulidis , M. Plionis , I. Georgantopoulos , N. Fanidakis

We have used a deep Chandra observation of the central regions of the twin-jet FRI radio galaxy 3C31 to resolve the thermal X-ray emission in the central few kiloparsecs of the host galaxy, NGC 383, where the jets are thought to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. J. Hardcastle , D. M. Worrall , M. Birkinshaw , R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle

In the last decade, it has been possible to monitor variable X-ray sources in nearby galaxies. In particular, since the launch of Chandra, M31 has been regularly observed. It is perhaps the only nearby galaxy which is observed by an X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-22 Albert K. H. Kong

Two Chandra observations have been used to search for thermal X-ray emission from within and around the Crab Nebula. Dead-time was minimized by excluding the brightest part of the Nebula from the field of view. A dust-scattered halo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. D. Seward , P. Gorenstein , R. K. Smith

We report on the detection of two elongated X-ray features G359.89-0.08 and G359.54+0.18 in the Galactic center (GC) region using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. G359.89-0.08 is an elongated X-ray feature located $\sim$2\arcmin in projection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. J. Lu , Q. D. Wang , C. C. Lang

We present followup observations of five hard X-ray sources from the ASCA 5-10 keV SHEEP survey, which has a limiting flux of $\sim 10^{-13}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. Chandra data have been obtained to improve the X-ray positions from a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Nandra , I. Georgantopoulos , M. Brotherton , I. E. Papadakis

IGR J17511-3057 is a low mass X-ray binary hosting a neutron star and is one of the few accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars with X-ray bursts. We report on a 20ksec Chandra grating observation of IGR J17511-3057, performed on 2009 September…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Paizis , M. A. Nowak , J. Rodriguez , J. Wilms , S. Chaty , M. Del Santo , P. Ubertini

We searched for X-ray shadowing toward two infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) using the MOS detectors on XMM-Newton to learn about the Galactic distribution of X-ray emitting plasma. IRDCs make ideal X-ray shadowing targets of 3/4 kev photons due…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Loren D. Anderson , Steve L. Snowden , Thomas M. Bania

This paper discusses the X-ray halo around the Swift gamma-ray burst GRB 050724 (z=0.258), detected by the Swift X-Ray Telescope. The halo, which forms a ring around the fading X-ray source, expands to a radius of 200" within 8 ks of the…

Time resolved X-ray spectroscopy of thermonuclear bursts observed from low mass X-ray binaries offer a unique tool to measure neutron star masses and radii. In this paper, we continue our systematic analysis of all the X-ray bursts observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-22 Tolga Guver , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

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 on Chandra observations of three quasars SDSSP J083643+005453, SDSSP J103027+052455, and SDSSP J130608+035626 at redshifts 5.82, 6.28 and 5.99 respectively. All the three sources are clearly detected in the X-ray band, up to rest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Smita Mathur , Belinda Wilkes , Himel Ghosh

We report on the discovery of 41 new pulsating sources in the data of the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, which is sensitive to X-ray photons in the 0.3-10 keV band. The archival data of the first 15 years of Chandra observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Gian Luca Israel , Paolo Esposito , Guillermo Andres Rodriguez Castillo , Lara Sidoli

We have examined Chandra observations of the recently discovered X-ray thread G0.13-0.11 in the Galactic center Radio Arc region. Part of the {\sl Chandra} data was studied by Yusef-Zadeh, Law, & Wardle (2002), who reported the detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Q. Daniel Wang , Fangjun Lu , Cornelia C. Lang

We observed the main core F of the rho Ophiuchi cloud, an active star-forming region located at ~140 pc, using XMM-Newton with an exposure of 33 ks. We detect 87 X-ray sources within the 30' diameter field-of-view of the it EPIC imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Ozawa , N. Grosso , T. Montmerle

We report on exploratory Chandra observations of five galactic nuclei that were found to be X-ray bright during the ROSAT all-sky survey (with L_X > 10^43 erg s^-1) but subsequently exhibited a dramatic decline in X-ray luminosity. Very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Vaughan , R. Edelson , R. S. Warwick