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Where do cosmic X-rays come from? Every new unidentified X-ray source could potentially revolutionize our understanding of the universe. The international collaborative astronomy project EXTraS aimed at automatically classifying new sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-11 Annika Kreikenbohm

The universe provides numerous extremely interesting astrophysical sources of synchrotron X radiation. The Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray missions provide powerful probes of these and other cosmic X-ray sources. Chandra is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin C. Weisskopf

We present the X-ray source catalogues for the XMM surveys of the 3-h and 14-h Canada-France Redshift Survey fields (0.5-10 keV flux range ~2E-15 - 1E-13 erg cm^-2 s^-1). We use a subset of the XMM sources, which have Chandra positions, to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. J. Waskett , S. A. Eales , W. K. Gear , H. J. McCracken , M. Brodwin , K. Nandra , E. S. Laird , S. Lilly

We use WIRC, IR images of the Antennae (NGC 4038/4039) together with the extensive catalogue of 120 X-ray point sources (Zezas et al. 2006) to search for counterpart candidates. Using our proven frame-tie technique, we find 38 X-ray sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. M. Clark , S. S. Eikenberry , B. R. Brandl , J. C. Wilson , J. C. Carson , C. P. Henderson , T. L. Hayward , D. J. Barry , A. F. Ptak , E. J. M. Colbert

We present a multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction algorithm called getsources. Although it has been designed primarily for use in the far-infrared surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel, the method can be applied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Men'shchikov , Ph. André , P. Didelon , F. Motte , M. Hennemann , N. Schneider

Data mining techniques, including clustering and classification tasks, for the automatic information extraction from large datasets are increasingly demanded in several scientific fields. In particular, in the astrophysical field, large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Frailis , A. De Angelis , V. Roberto

We describe detailed simulations of X-ray-emitting populations to evaluate the levels of contamination by both Galactic and extragalactic X-ray sources unrelated to a star-forming region under study. For Galactic contaminations, we consider…

Thanks to the large collecting area (3 x ~1500 cm$^2$ at 1.5 keV) and wide field of view (30' across in full field mode) of the X-ray cameras on board the European Space Agency X-ray observatory XMM-Newton, each individual pointing can…

The features and make up of the population of X-ray sources in Galactic star clusters reflect the properties of the underlying stellar environment. Cluster age, mass, stellar encounter rate, binary frequency, metallicity, and maybe other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Maureen van den Berg

We review recent examples where the synergy between radio and X-ray observations has led to substantial progress in understanding astronomical systems. The sub-arcsecond imaging capabilities of the Chandra X-ray observatory provides a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel A. Schwartz

We describe a possible new class of X-ray sources that have robust detections in ultra-deep Chandra data, yet have no detections at all in our deep multi-band GOODS Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ACS images, which represent the highest…

In this paper we investigate the X-ray spectra and X-ray spectral variability of compact X-ray sources for 3 Chandra observations of the Local Group galaxy M33. The observations are centered on the nucleus and the star forming region NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. -J. Grimm , J. McDowell , A. Zezas , D. -W. Kim , G. Fabbiano

We have cross-correlated X-ray catalogs derived from archival Chandra ACIS observations with a Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 2 (DR2) galaxy catalog to form a sample of 42 serendipitously X-ray detected galaxies over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Hornschemeier , T. M. Heckman , A. F. Ptak , C. A. Tremonti , E. J. M. Colbert

We present the X-ray spectral analysis of the 390 brightest extragalactic sources in the Chandra-COSMOS catalog, showing at least 70 net counts in the 0.5-7 keV band. This sample has a 100% completeness in optical-IR identification, with…

The Chandra Multi-wavelength Project (ChaMP) is a wide-area (~14 deg^2) survey of serendipitous Chandra X-ray sources, aiming to establish fair statistical samples covering a wide range of characteristics (such as absorbed AGNs, high z…

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…

[Abridged] We present reliable multiwavelength identifications and high-quality photometric redshifts for the 462 X-ray sources in the ~2 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South. Source identifications are carried out using deep optical-to-radio…

{\it Chandra} Galactic Center Survey detected $\sim 800$ X-ray point-like sources in the $2^{\circ} \times 0.8^{\circ}$ sky region around the Galactic Center. In this paper, we study the spatial and luminosity distributions of these sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. F. Wu , S. N. Zhang , F. J. Lu , Y. K. Jin

Coadded astronomical images are created by stacking multiple single-exposure images. Because coadded images are smaller in terms of data size than the single-exposure images they summarize, loading and processing them is less…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Mallory Wang , Ismael Mendoza , Cheng Wang , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier

Based on the recently completed {\it Chandra}/ACIS survey of X-ray point sources in nearby galaxies, we study the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) for X-ray point sources in different types of galaxies and the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-28 Song Wang , Yanli Qiu , Jifeng Liu , Joel N. Bregman