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We use ROSAT PSPC data to study the X-ray properties of a sample of twelve poor groups that have extensive membership information (Zabludoff and Mulchaey 1997; Paper I). Diffuse X-ray emission is detected in nine of these groups. In all but…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 John S. Mulchaey , Ann I. Zabludoff

The nearby galaxy M33 hosts the most luminous steady X-ray source in the Local Group. The high spatial resolution of Chandra allows us to confirm that this ultra-luminous X-ray source is within the nucleus and rule out at the 4.6 sigma…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Guillaume Dubus , Robert E. Rutledge

We report the detection of six discrete, low-luminosity (Lx < 10^33 erg/s) X-ray sources, located within 12 arcsec of the center of the collapsed-core globular cluster M30 (NGC 7099), and a total of 13 sources within the half-mass radius,…

We present a spectral and spatial analysis of the nuclear and circumnuclear X-ray emission of the prominent southern starburst/Seyfert galaxy NGC 1365. To describe the X-ray spectrum of the core source, we favour a two-component model…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefanie Komossa , Hartmut Schulz

We have searched the entire ROSAT archive for useful observations to study X-ray emission from Galactic planetary nebulae (PNs). The search yields a sample of 63 PNs, which we call the ROSAT PN sample. About 20-25% of this sample show X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin A. Guerrero , You-Hua Chu , Robert A. Gruendl

Andromeda X (And X) is a newly discovered low-luminosity M31 dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) found by Zucker et al. (2007) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS - York et al. 2000). In this paper, we present the first spectroscopic study of…

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…

We report the results of XMM-Newton observations for an especially luminous supersoft X-ray source (SSS) with bolometric luminosity of 10^39 erg/s in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. The source was detected as a SSS in 1992 and disappeared in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. K. H. Kong , R. Di Stefano

We present the second ROSAT all-sky survey source catalogue, hereafter referred to as the 2RXS catalogue. This is the second publicly released ROSAT catalogue of point-like sources obtained from the ROSAT all-sky survey (RASS) observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-30 Th. Boller , M. J. Freyberg , J. Truemper , F. Haberl , W. Voges , K. Nandra

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 have searched for unresolved X-ray sources in the vicinity of two rich clusters of galaxies: Abell 1995 (A1995) and MS 0451.6-0305 (MS0451), using the Chandra X-ray observatory. We detected significantly more unresolved sources around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. M. Molnar , J. P. Hughes , M. Donahue , M. Joy

We report on the discovery of a periodic modulation in the bright supersoft X-ray source XMMU J004252.5+411540 detected in the 2000-2004 XMM-Newton observations of M31. The source exhibits X-ray pulsations with a period P~217.7 s and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergey Trudolyubov , William Priedhorsky

Four XMM-Newton X-ray observations of the central region of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) have revealed an X-ray source that varies in luminosity over \~1--3, 10^{38} erg s^{-1} between observations and also displays significant variability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Barnard , J. P. Osborne , U. Kolb , K. N. Borozdin

The Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) onboard the AstroSat observatory has imaged the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) from 2017 to 2019 in FUV and NUV with the high spatial resolution of ~1". The survey covered the large sky area of M31 with a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-08 Denis Leahy , Megan Buick , Joseph Postma , Cole Morgan

We analyzed a sample of 26 background X-ray sources in a ~60 square degree field of the Large Magellanic Cloud observed with the ROSAT PSPC. The sample has been selected from previously classified and optically identified X-ray sources. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. Kahabka , K. S. de Boer , C. Bruens

We describe a series of observations of NGC 1313 using the ROSAT HRI with a combined exposure time of 183.5 ksec. The observations span an interval between 1992 and 1998; the purpose of observations since 1994 was to monitor the X-ray flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric M. Schlegel , Robert Petre , E. J. M. Colbert , Scott Miller

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has been observed with the UltraViolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT) instrument onboard the AstroSat Observatory. The M31 sky area was covered with 19 fields, in multiple UV filters per field, over the period of 2017…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-11 D. A. Leahy , J. Postma , M. Buick , C. Morgan , L. Bianchi , J. Hutchings

We present an X-ray spectral and spatial analysis of the composite starburst/Seyfert galaxy NGC 1365. Excellent fits of the ROSAT PSPC spectrum are obtained by combining a soft thermal component with a hard powerlaw. The hard component may…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefanie Komossa , Hartmut Schulz

The existence of a population of wandering Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs) is a generic prediction of scenarios that seek to explain the formation of Supermassive Black Holes in terms of growth from massive seeds. The growth of IMBHs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mattia Fornasa , Marco Taoso , Gianfranco Bertone

In the construction of an X-ray selected sample of galaxy clusters for cosmological studies, we have assembled a sample of 495 X-ray sources found to show extended X-ray emission in the first processing of the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. The…