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We present arcsecond resolution Chandra X-ray and ground-based optical H-alpha imaging of a sample of ten edge-on star-forming disk galaxies (seven starburst and three ``normal'' spiral galaxies), a sample which covers the full range of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. K. Strickland , T. M. Heckman , E. J. M. Colbert , C. G. Hoopes , K. A. Weaver

The disk instability picture gives a plausible explanation for the behavior of soft X-ray transient systems if self-irradiation of the disk is included. We show that there is a simple relation between the peak luminosity (at the start of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-21 Jean-Pierre Lasota , Andrew R. King , Guillaume Dubus

We predict a thin (scale height $\sim$ 80 pc) diffuse component of the Galactic Ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) arising from the scattering of the radiation of bright X-ray binaries (XBs) by the interstellar medium (ISM). The morphology of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-30 Margherita Molaro , Rishi Khatri , Rashid Sunyaev

The X-ray emission from the faintest X-ray elliptical and S0 galaxies is characterized by a hard ~5 keV component, and a very soft ~0.2 keV component. The hard component has generally been regarded as the integrated emission from low mass…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Jimmy A. Irwin , Craig L. Sarazin

We present a short overview of the properties of faint Galactic X-ray binaries. We place emphasis on current classification scenarios. One of the important parameters for the faint sources is their intrinsic luminosity. In the case of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-11 P. G. Jonker , M. A. P. Torres , D. Steeghs

X-ray emission traces the gaseous environments of radio sources. The medium must be present for jet confinement, but what are its influence on jet fuelling, dynamics, propagation, and disruption? The observational situation is both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. M. Worrall

X-ray spectra of galaxy clusters are dominated by the thermal emission from the hot intracluster medium. In some cases, besides the thermal component, spectral models require additional components associated, e.g., with resonant scattering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Liyi Gu , Irina Zhuravleva , Eugene Churazov , Frits Paerels , Jelle Kaastra , Hiroya Yamaguchi

The global energy budget of the hot gas flows in early-type galaxies is used to explain the recent observational results that S0 galaxies have lower mean X-ray luminosity $L_X$ per unit optical luminosity $L_B$ than do ellipticals. This…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. Ciotti , S. Pellegrini

The relation between X-ray luminosity and near-infrared luminosity for early-type galaxies has been examined. Near-infrared (NIR) luminosities should provide a superior measure of stellar mass compared to optical luminosities used in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. C. Ellis , Ewan O'Sullivan

We present the results of X-ray imaging and spectroscopic analysis of a sample of Seyfert 2 galaxies that contain starbursts, based on their optical and UV characteristics. These composite galaxies exhibit extended, soft, thermal X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. A. Levenson , K. A. Weaver , T. M. Heckman

We propose a stellar origin for the central dust clouds observed in most giant elliptical galaxies. Dusty gas ejected from evolving red giant stars in E or cD galaxies can cool rapidly even after entering the hot, X-ray emitting gas.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 William G. Mathews , Fabrizio Brighenti

Starburst galaxies are $\gamma$-ray sources. Canonically, their emission is driven by hadronic cosmic rays (CRs) interacting with interstellar gas, forming $\gamma$-rays via the decay of neutral pions. Charged pions are also formed in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-06 Ellis R. Owen , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Tatsuki Fujiwara , Albert K. H. Kong

We present estimates for the iron content of the stellar and diffused components of elliptical galaxies, as derived respectively from integrated optical spectra and from ASCA X-ray observations. A macroscopic discrepancy emerges between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Nobuo Arimoto , Kyoko Matsushita , Yuhri Ishimaru , Takaya Ohashi , Alvio Renzini

We study the emission from the hot interstellar medium in a sample of nearby late type galaxies defined in Paper I. Our sample covers a broad range of star formation rates, from ~0.1 Msun/yr to ~17 Msun/yr and stellar masses, from ~3x10^8…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Mineo , M. Gilfanov , R. Sunyaev

Gas loss is thought to be important in SF quenching and morphological transition during the evolution of S0 galaxies. In high density environments, gas loss can be achieved via many external mechanisms. However, in relatively isolated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Jiang-Tao Li , Q. Daniel Wang , Zhiyuan Li , Yang Chen

Detailed 3-D numerical simulations of an elliptical galaxy orbiting in a gas-rich cluster of galaxies indicate that gas dynamic stripping is less efficient than the results from previous, simpler calculations (Takeda et al. 1984; Gaetz et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Thomas Toniazzo , Sabine Schindler

We cross-matched the 4XMM-DR10 catalog with the HyperLEDA database and obtained the new sample of galaxies that contain X-ray sources. Excluding duplicate observations and false matches, we present a total of 7759 galaxies with X-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-08 N. Pulatova , A. Tugay , L. Zadorozhna , R. Seeburger , O. Gugnin

We present an 82 ksec Chandra ACIS-I observation of a large-scale hierarchical complex, which consists of various clusters/groups of galaxies and low-surface brightness X-ray emission at z = 0.247. This high-resolution {\sl Chandra}…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Q. Daniel Wang , Frazer Owen , Michael Ledlow

X-ray binaries may have helped reionize the early Universe by enabling Lyman continuum escape. We analyzed a set of 8 local galaxies that are potential Lyman leaking galaxies, identified by a blue color and weak emission lines, using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-10 Jesse Bluem , Philip Kaaret , Andrea Prestwich , Matthew Brorby

Radio and X-ray emission from compact sources with accretion disks (active galactic nuclei, pulsars and X-ray binaries) is considered. It is shown that both radio and X-ray emission from these sources can be interpreted as emission of a hot…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 F. V. Prigara