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We report three epochs of polarized images of M87* at 230\,GHz using data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) taken in 2017, 2018, and 2021. The baseline coverage of the 2021 observations is significantly improved through the addition of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-30 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We have studied the X-ray source population of the face-on spiral galaxy M101 (NGC 5457). Within a field of radius 17' (36 kpc at the distance of 7.2 Mpc), covered by an ultradeep (229 ks) ROSAT HRI image, 51 X-ray sources are detected with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Q. Daniel Wang , Stefan Immler , Wolfgang Pietsch

We report and interpret HST/STIS long-slit observations of the optical and ultraviolet (1150 - 10270 Angstrom) emission-line spectra of the rapidly brightening Spot 1 on the equatorial ring of SN 1987A between 1997 September and 1999…

New Chandra observations have resolved the structure of the X-ray luminous southern hotspot in the giant radio quasar 4C74.26 into two distinct features. The nearer one to the nucleus is an extremely luminous peak, extended some 5 kpc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mary Erlund , Andy Fabian , Katherine Blundell , Carolin Crawford , Paul Hirst

Radio-bright, presumably young supernova remnants offer the opportunity of studying strong-shock physics and the nature of the interaction of ejected material with the surrounding medium. We use VLA and ROSAT images of the radio-bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. K. Dyer , S. P. Reynolds

In this paper we report on the analysis of a deep ROSAT HRI image of the moderately-rich cluster, Abell 2634, by which we have been able to detect the X-ray emission from the galaxies in the cluster. The ICM of Abell 2634 is an order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Sakelliou , M. R. Merrifield

The Galactic plane is a strong hard x-ray emitter and the emission forms a narrow continuous ridge. The currently known hard x-ray sources are far too few to explain the ridge x-ray emission, and the fundamental question as to whether the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ken Ebisawa , Yoshitomo Maeda , Hidehiro Kaneda , Shigeo Yamauchi

The results of $H_\alpha$ and [NII]$\lambda 6583$ observations of the spiral galaxy NGC 1084 at the SAO 6m telescope with a Fabry-Perot interferometer are presented. The complex structure of the emission line profile has revealed the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Moiseev

We report the discovery of spatially-extended, non-thermal-like emission components in Chandra X-ray spectra for five of a sample of seven massive, merging galaxy clusters with powerful radio halos. The emission components can be fitted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. T. Million , S. W. Allen

The nucleus of M87 displays a LINER spectrum at optical wavelengths, with a nuclear disk of nebulosity that is resolved by the Hubble Space Telescope. We present new results from optical and ultraviolet spectra of the central ~40pc as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. M. Sabra , J. C. Shields , L. C. Ho , A. J. Barth , A. V. Filippenko

Based on mapping observations with ASCA, an unusual hot region with a spatial extent of 1 square degree was discovered between M87 and M49 at a center coordinate of R. A. = 12h 27m 36s and Dec. = $9^\circ18'$ (J2000). The X-ray emission…

We present model fits to the X-ray line spectrum of the well known High Mass X-ray binary Cyg X-3. The primary observational dataset is a spectrum taken with the $Chandra$ X-ray Observatory High Energy Transmission Grating (HETG) in 2006,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 T. Kallman , M. McCollough , L. Corrales , K. Koljonen , D. Liedahl , J. Miller , F. Paerels , G. Pooley , M. Sako , N. Schulz , S. Trushkin

We report the detection of diffuse gamma-ray emission toward the young massive star cluster Berkeley 87 using Fermi data. The emission has an angular extension of 0.36 degree and a photon index of 2.68. The hadronic scenario is favored…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Ziwei Ou , Xiaolong Yang

The radio galaxy M87 is well known for its jet, which features a series of bright knots observable from radio to X-ray wavelengths. The most famous of these, HST-1, exhibits superluminal motion, and our analysis of {\it Chandra} data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-28 Rameshan Thimmappa , Joey Neilsen , Daryl Haggard , Michael A. Nowak , Łukasz Stawarz

The polarized images of the supermassive black hole Messier 87* (M87*) produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) provide a direct view of the near-horizon emission from a black hole accretion and jet system. The EHT theoretical analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Daniel C. M. Palumbo , Michi Baubock , Charles F. Gammie

The origin of the tight radio--IR correlation in galaxies has not been fully understood. One reason is the uncertainty about which heating sources (stars or diffuse interstellar radiation field)provide the energy that is absorbed by dust…

In 2017 April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observed the near-horizon region around the supermassive black hole at the core of the M87 galaxy. These 1.3 mm wavelength observations revealed a compact asymmetric ring-like source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-05 The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

The giant radio galaxy M87 is usually classified as a Fanaroff-Riley class I source, suggesting that M87 is a mis-aligned BL Lac object. Its unresolved nuclear region emits strong non-thermal emission from radio to X-rays which has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Reimer , R. J. Protheroe , A. -C. Donea

We report performance verification observations of the giant elliptical galaxy M87 in the Virgo Cluster with the MOS, pn, and optical monitor instruments on board of XMM-Newton. With the energy sensitive imaging instruments MOS and pn we…

Statistical properties of X-ray luminosity and temperature are studied for 52 early-type galaxies based on the ROSAT PSPC data. All of the X-ray luminous galaxies show largely extended emission with a radius of a few times of 10$r_e$, while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kyoko Matsushita