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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are axisymmetric systems to first order; their observed properties are likely strong functions of inclination with respect to our line of sight, yet the specific inclinations of all but a few AGN are generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 T. C. Fischer , D. M. Crenshaw , S. B. Kraemer , H. R. Schmitt , T. J. Turner

Two sources of X-ray emission are expected from planetary nebulae: the hot central stars with $T_{eff} > 10^5$ K, and shocked fast stellar winds at temperatures of 10$^6 - 10^7$ K. The stellar emission and nebular emission differ in spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 You-Hua Chu , Martin A. Guerrero , Robert A. Gruendl

Variations of the X-ray spectral slope have been found in many Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) at moderate luminosities and redshifts, typically showing a "softer when brighter" behaviour. However, similar studies are not usually performed for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-28 Roberto Serafinelli , Fausto Vagnetti , Riccardo Middei

We present a systematic search for variability among the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) X-ray sources. We generated lightcurves for about 30000 X-ray point sources detected sufficiently high above background. For our variability study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Fuhrmeister , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

X-ray variation is a ubiquitous feature of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), however, its origin is not well understood. In this paper, we show that the X-ray flux variations in some AGNs, and correspondingly the power spectral densities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 Fupeng Zhang , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

We use the extensive public archive of ROSAT High Resolution Imager (HRI) observations to carry out a statistical investigation of the X-ray properties of nearby galaxies. Specifically we focus on the sample of 486 bright (B_T < 12.5)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. P. Roberts , R. S. Warwick

We examine a systematic comparison of jet-knots, hotspots and radio lobes recently observed with Chandra and ASCA. This report will discuss the origin of their X-ray emissions and investigate the dynamics of the jets. The data was compiled…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun Kataoka , Lukasz Stawarz

We investigate the X-ray properties of four isolated elliptical galaxies, selected from the Updated Zwicky Catalog according to strict isolation criteria. Isolated galaxies are not influenced by the group/cluster environment, and their…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-17 Elisabetta Memola , Ginevra Trinchieri , Anna Wolter , Paola Focardi , Birgit Kelm

We present a study of the flux distribution of a sample of 15 Intermediate and Low-energy peaked blazars using XMM-Newton observations in a total of 57 epochs on short-term timescales. We characterise the X-ray variability of all of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-07 Kiran Wani , Haritma Gaur

Ionization cones and relativistic jets give us one of the most large-scale example of active galactic nuclei (AGN) influence on the surrounding gas environment in galaxies and beyond. The study of ionization cones makes it possible not only…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-05 Alexei V. Moiseev , Aleksandrina A. Smirnova

The $\gamma$-ray astronomy in time domain has been by now progressed further as the variabilities of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) on different timescales have been reported a lot. We study the $\gamma$-ray variabilities of 23 jetted AGNs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Haiyun Zhang , Dahai Yan , Li Zhang

X-ray variability is very common in active galactic nuclei (AGN), but these variations may not occur similarly in different families of AGN. We aim to disentangle the structure of low ionization nuclear emission line regions (LINERs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 Lorena Hernandez-Garcia , Josefa Masegosa , Omaira Gonzalez-Martin , Isabel Marquez , Jaime Perea

The presence or lack of eclipses in the X-ray lightcurves of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) can be directly linked to the accreting system geometry. In the case where the compact object is stellar mass and radiates isotropically, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-03 Matthew Middleton , Andrew King

The polarization of an X-ray beam that produces electrons with velocity components perpendicular to the beam generates an azimuthal distribution of the ejected electrons. We present methods for simulating and for analyzing the angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 C. G. Montgomery , J. H. Swank

The unified model of active galactic nuclei (AGN) includes a toroidal obscuring structure to explain the differences between Type I and Type II AGN as an effect of inclination angle. This toroidal structure is thought to be 'clumpy' as the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-19 Isaiah Cox , Nuria Torres-Alba , Stefano Marchesi , Xiurui Zhao , Marco Ajello , Andrealuna Pizzetti , Ross Silver

This paper presents new Chandra and BeppoSAX observations aimed at investigating the optical/X-ray mismatch in the enigmatic class of the Composite galaxies, discovered by a cross-correlation of IRAS and ROSAT all sky survey catalogues.…

Temporal analysis of X-ray binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei have shown that hard X-rays react to variation of soft ones after a time delay. The opposite trend, or soft lag, has only been seen in a few rare Quasi-periodic Oscillations in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Shruti Tripathi , Ranjeev Misra , Gulab Dewangan , Shantanu Rastogi

Observations of active galactic nuclei have revealed a correlation between millimeter luminosity, X-ray luminosity, and mass, suggesting the emission in each of these bands is powered by a common source. Starting with a set of five general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-16 Kratika Mazde , Angelo Ricarte , George N. Wong

We present the multi-wavelength and environmental properties of 37 variability-selected active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including 30 low luminosity AGNs (LLAGNs), using a high cadence time-domain survey (ASAS-SN) from a spectroscopic sample…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-30 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai , Marko Mićić

Recent Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of a number of X-ray ``dim'' pulsating neutron stars revealed quite unexpected features in the emission from these sources. Their soft thermal spectrum, believed to originate directly from the star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Silvia Zane , Roberto Turolla