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The anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) represent a growing class of neutron stars discovered at X-ray energies. While the nature of their multi-wavelength emission mechanism is still under debate, evidence has been recently accumulating in…

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X-ray emission provides the most direct diagnostics of the energy-release process in solar flares. Occasionally, a superhot X-ray source is found to be above hot flare loops of ~10 MK temperature. While the origin of the superhot plasma is…

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Here we present detailed analysis of the distinct X-ray emission features present within the Eastern radio lobe of the Pictor A galaxy, around the jet termination region, utilising the data obtained from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-02 R. Thimmappa , Ł. Stawarz , U. Pajdosz-Śmierciak , K. Balasubramaniam , V. Marchenko

We report the first detection with INTEGRAL of persistent hard X-ray emission (20 to 100 keV) from the Rapid Burster (MXB 1730-335), and describe its full spectrum from 3 to 100 keV. The source was detected on February/March 2003 during one…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Falanga , R. Farinelli , P. Goldoni , F. Frontera , A. Goldwurm , L. Stella

We present spatial analysis of the deep (57ks) ROSAT HRI X-ray image of the E4 galaxy NGC 720. The orientation of the HRI surface brightness is consistent with the optical position angle $(PA)$ interior to semi-major axis $a\sim 60\arcsec$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 David A. Buote , Claude R. Canizares

Optical spectra of the well-known infrared source CPM~19, which exhibited a strong decline in brightness during the period from 1984--1987 to 2000--2005, have been obtained for the first time. A strong and broad H$\alpha$ emission line has…

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Complex eigenfrequencies of the exterior of a scatterer are considered as signatures of the scatterer's shape. A parameter characterizing the ratio of the maximum transverse and longitudinal dimensions of a body is found.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Efimova

We discuss the extended X-ray emission seen in three archival Chandra observations, and one archival XMM-Newton observation, of the FRII radio galaxy Pictor A. The overall properties of the X-ray lobes are consistent with the conclusions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston

We have used the WSRT to carry out an unbiased wide-field survey of HI emission features, achieving an RMS sensitivity of about 18 mJy/Beam at a velocity resolution of 17 km/s over 1800 deg^2. In this paper we present our HI detections at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Braun , David Thilker

The radio source 18P87, previously thought to be a point source, has been serendipitously found to be resolved into a core-jet geometry in VLA maps. HI absorption of continuum emission (in data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey)…

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We report here the results of a full analysis of all the ROSAT PSPC spectral imaging observations and all the ROSAT HRI high resolution imaging observations of the very nearby (D=2.1 Mpc) Sculptor galaxy, NGC 300. Many point sources are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. M. Read , W. Pietsch

We present results from a sample of 106 high-luminosity IRAS sources observed with the Very Large Array in the B and C configurations. 96 sources were observed in the X-band and 52 in the K-band, with 42 of them observed at both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-16 D. Quiroga-Gonzalez , M. A. Trinidad , E. de la Fuente , J. M. Masque , T. Rodriguez-Esnard

In an earlier paper we presented Jansky Very Large Array multi-frequency, multi-array continuum imaging of a unique sample of low axial-ratio radio galaxies. In this paper, the second in the series, we examine the images to know the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Lakshmi Saripalli , David H. Roberts

We present a new total intensity image of M31 at 1.248 GHz, observed with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope (FAST) with an angular resolution of 4 arcmin and a sensitivity of about 16 mK. The new FAST image clearly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-04 Wenjun Zhang , Xiaohui Sun , Jie Wang

Using the Suzaku X-ray Imaging Spectrometer, we performed a 130 ks observation of an extended X-ray emission, which was shown by ROSAT and Chandra observations to apparently associate with the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. The obtained…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Takayuki Yuasa , Kazuhiro Nakazawa , Kazuo Makishima

The relation between parameters the D/sqrt(I) and Ic/Isum and radiation patterns of the optical and radio components of an extended radio source is analyzed, where D and I are the apparent size and observed radiation intensity of the source…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-12-21 V. R. Amirkhanyan

We present 75"x75" size maps of M82 at 6.4 micron, 6.6 micron, 7.7 micron, 31.5 micron, and 37.1 micron with a resolution of ~4" that we have obtained with the mid-IR camera FORCAST on SOFIA. We find strong emission from the inner 60"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Nikola , T. L. Herter , W. D. Vacca , J. D. Adams , J. M. De Buizer , G. E. Gull , C. P. Henderson , L. D. Keller , M. R. Morris , J. Schoenwald , G. Stacey , A. Tielens

The M81 group member dwarf galaxy IC 2574 hosts a supergiant shell of current and recent star-formation activity surrounding a 1000 x 500 pc hole in the ambient Hi gas distribution. Chandra X-ray Observatory imaging observations reveal a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Mihoko Yukita , Douglas A. Swartz

We present new XMM-Newton X-ray observations of the z=1.246 narrow-line radioquasar RX J1011.2+5545 serendipitously discovered by ROSAT. The flat X-ray spectrum previously measured by ROSAT and ASCA is shown to be the result of a steep…

We present the first HST long-slit spectrum of a gaseous disk around a candidate super-massive black-hole. The results of this study on the kinematics of the gaseous disk in M87 are a considerable improvement in both spatial resolution and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-13 A. Marconi , D. J. Axon , F. D. Macchetto , A. Capetti , W. B. Sparks , P. Crane