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Superluminal motion is a common feature of radio jets in powerful gamma-ray emitting active galactic nuclei. Conventionally, the variable emission is assumed to originate near the central supermassive black-hole where the jet is launched on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. C. Cheung , D. E. Harris , L. Stawarz

Diffuse far-ultraviolet (FUV) emissions from the Lupus Loop region (SNR 330.0+15.0) have been observed with Spectroscopy of Plasma Evolution from Astrophysical Radiation (SPEAR), also known as Far-ultraviolet IMaging Spectrograph (FIMS). We…

A high spectral resolution observation of the diffuse X-ray background in the 60 - 1000 eV energy range has been made using an array of thirty-six 1 mm^2 micro-calorimeters flown on a sounding rocket. Detector energy resolution ranged from…

We present an X-ray investigation of the elliptical galaxy NGC 507. We make use of archival Rosat HRI, PSPC and Chandra data, to connect the large-scale structure of the halo to the core morphology. Our analysis shows that the halo core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Paolillo , G. Fabbiano , G. Peres , D. -W. Kim

The X-ray observations of SN 1987A over the previous 20 years have seen the emergence of soft X-rays from the interaction of the explosion shock wave with the ambient medium. This shock wave is now interacting strongly with the inner ring…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Bernd Aschenbach

We report the detection of luminous extended X-ray emission in NGC 6240 on the basis of ROSAT HRI observations of this ultraluminous IR galaxy. The spatial structure and temporal behavior of the X-ray source were analyzed. We find that >=…

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

We report new radio imaging of the large scale radio structure of M87 with the VLA at 90 cm. These new images show the complex structure of the radio emission more clearly than previous attempts, some of which date back to the 1940's. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. N. Owen , J. a Eilek , N. E. Kassim

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

In this study, we present an analysis of the archival X-ray data of the eclipsing supersoft X-ray binary CAL 87 observed with the {\it Chandra} Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) camera and Low Energy Transmission Grating (LETG) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 Songpeng Pei , Xiaowan Zhang , Qiang Li , Ziwei Ou

By accumulating data from the Solid-state Slit Camera (SSC) on board the MAXI mission for 2 years from 2009 to 2011, diffuse X-ray background maps were obtained in energies of 0.7--1.0, 1.0--2.0, and 2.0--4.0 keV. They are the first ones…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Satoshi Nakahira , Hiroshi Tsunemi , Hiroshi Tomida , Shinya Nakashima , Ryuho Kataoka , Kazuo Makishima

The radio galaxy M87 is well known for its jet, which features a series of bright knots observable from radio to X-ray wavelengths. We analyze the X-ray image and flux variability of the knot HST-1 in the jet. Our analysis includes all 112…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Rameshan Thimmappa , Joey Neilsen , Daryl Haggard , Michael A. Nowak , Sera Markoff

The Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope was used to obtain spectra of the central region of M87. These spectra cover the wavelength range 1140 - 1606 Angstrom and have a resolution of about 1 Angstrom. The nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Ravi Sankrit , Kenneth R. Sembach , Claude R. Canizares

We study the contribution of thermal and non-thermal processes to the inverse Compton emission of the radio galaxy M 87 by modelling its broad-band emission. Through this we aim to derive insight into where within the AGN the X-ray,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-27 S. de Jong , V. Beckmann , S. Soldi , A. Tramacere , A. Gros

(abridged) Using a deep Chandra exposure (574 ks), we present high-resolution thermodynamic maps created from the spectra of $\sim$16,000 independent regions, each with $\sim$1,000 net counts. The excellent spatial resolution of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. T. Million , N. Werner , A. Simionescu , S. W. Allen , P. E. J. Nulsen , A. C. Fabian , H. Bohringer , J. S. Sanders

We have discovered extended X-ray emission from the microquasar Cyg X-3 in archival Chandra X-ray Observatory observations. A 5" wide structure lies approximately 16" to the NE from the core point source and may be extended in that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. A. Heindl , J. A. Tomsick , R. Wijnands , D. M. Smith

We present hard X-ray observations of the nearby radio galaxy M87 and the core of the Virgo cluster using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. These are the first hard X-ray observations of M87 not affected by contamination from the nearby…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 C. S. Reynolds , S. Heinz , A. C. Fabian , M. C. Begelman

We present results from a sensitive high-resolution X-ray observation of the nearby active galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) with the ROSAT HRI. The 65~ksec X-ray image clearly distinguishes different components of the X-ray emission from Cen…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Doebereiner , N. Junkes , S. J. Wagner , H. Zinnecker , R. Fosbury , G. Fabbiano , E. J. Schreier

We combined deep Chandra, ROSAT HRI, and XMM-Newton observations of M87 to study the impact of AGN outbursts on its gaseous atmosphere. Many X-ray features appear to be a direct result of repetitive AGN outbursts. In particular, the X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 W. Forman , P. Nulsen , S. Heinz , F. Owen , J. Eilek , A. Vikhlinin , M. Markevitch , R. Kraft , E. Churazov , C. Jones

We have obtained the first broad-band X-ray spectra of the nearby compact elliptical galaxy M32 by using the ASCA satellite. The extracted spectra and X-ray luminosity are consistent with the properties of the hard spectral component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Loewenstein , K. Hayashida , T. Toneri , D. S. Davis

The recent 230 GHz observations of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are able to image the innermost structure of the M87 and show a ring-like structure which is in agreement with thermal synchrotron emission generated in a torus…