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Galactic X-ray emission is a manifestation of various high-energy phenomena and processes. The brightest X-ray sources are typically accretion-powered objects: active galactic nuclei and low- or high-mass X-ray binaries. Such objects with…

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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

We present the diffuse X-ray emission identified in Chandra observations of the young, massive Galactic star cluster Westerlund 1. After removing point-like X-ray sources down to a completeness limit of 2e31 erg/s, we identify 3e34 erg/s…

Several popular cosmological models predict that most of the baryonic mass in the local universe is located in filamentary and sheet-like structures associated with galaxy overdensities. This gas is expected to be gravitationally heated to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Zappacosta , F. Mannucci , R. Maiolino , R. Gilli , A. Ferrara , A. Finoguenov , N. M. Nagar , D. J. Axon

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

We present a statistical analysis of the largest X-ray survey of nearby spiral galaxies in which diffuse emission has been separated from discrete source contributions. Regression and rank-order correlation analyses are used to compare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. M. Read , T. J. Ponman

We found diffuse hard X-ray sources, G11.0+0.0, G25.5+0.0, and G26.6-0.1 in the ASCA Galactic plane survey data. The X-ray spectra are featureless with no emission line, and are fitted with both models of a thin thermal plasma in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Aya Bamba , Masaru Ueno , Katsuji Koyama , Shigeo Yamauchi

We have analyzed the soft X-ray emission in a wide area of the Sculptor supercluster by using overlapping ROSAT PSPC pointings. After subtraction of the point sources we have found evidence for extended, diffuse soft X-ray emission. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Zappacosta , R. Maiolino , F. Mannucci , R. Gilli , P. Schuecker

Cosmic hot-gas emission is closely related to halo gas acquisition and galactic feedback processes. Their X-ray observations reveal important physical properties and movements of the baryonic cycle of galactic ecosystems. However, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Yuning Zhang , Dandan Xu , Chengzhe Li , Wei Cui

Bolometric and 0.2-2 keV X-ray luminosities of the hot gas haloes of simulated disc galaxies have been calculated at redshift z=0. The TreeSPH simulations are fully cosmological and the sample of 44 disc galaxies span a range in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sune Toft , Jesper Rasmussen , Jesper Sommer-Larsen , Kristian Pedersen

Galaxy formation models predict that local galaxies are surrounded by hot X-ray-emitting halos, which are technically difficult to detect due to their extended and low surface brightness nature. Previous X-ray studies have mostly focused on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-14 Lin He , Zhiyuan Li , Meicun Hou , Min Du , Taotao Fang , Wei Cui

A search was conducted for a hot intragroup medium in 109 low-redshift galaxy groups observed with the ROSAT PSPC. Evidence for diffuse, extended X-ray emission is found in at least 61 groups. Approximately one-third of these detections…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 John S. Mulchaey , David S. Davis , Richard F. Mushotzky , David Burstein

We use simulations to predict the X-ray surface brightness distribution arising from hot, cosmologically distributed diffuse gas. The distribution is computed for two bands: 0.5-2 keV and 0.1-0.4 keV, using a cosmological-constant dominated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Greg L. Bryan , G. Mark Voit

Recent observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided us with the capability to discriminate point sources, such as the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, from the diffuse emission within the inner 10'' of the Galaxy. The hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriel Rockefeller , Chris L. Fryer , Fulvio Melia , Michael S. Warren

The intensity of the soft X-Ray background is correlated with the distribution of galaxies. To demonstrate this, magnitude limited galaxy samples extracted from bright galaxy catalogues and the Lick counts are utilized. Significant…

We study the diffuse X-ray luminosity ($L_X$) of star forming galaxies using 2-D axisymmetric hydrodynamical simulations and analytical considerations of supernovae (SNe) driven galactic outflows. We find that the mass loading of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Kartick C. Sarkar , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , Yuri Shchekinov

We examine the spectrum of diffuse emission detected in the 17' by 17' field around Sgr A* during 625 ks of Chandra observations. The spectrum exhibits He-like and H-like lines from Si, S, Ar, Ca, and Fe, that are consistent with…

The X-ray properties of the haloes of disk galaxies formed in fully cosmological, hydro/gravity simulations are discussed. The results are found to be consistent with observational X-ray detections and upper limits. Disk galaxy haloes are…

(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

We analyzed data from HaloSat observations for five fields in the Galactic disk located far away from the Galactic center (135$^{\circ}$ $<$ $l$ $<$ 254$^{\circ}$) to understand the nature of soft X-ray energy emission in the Galactic disk.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-06 Kazuki Ampuku , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Koki Sakuta , Philip Kaaret , Daniel M. LaRocca , Lorella Angelini