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We report the discovery of an X-ray pulsar AX J1740.1-2847 from the Galactic center region. This source was found as a faint hard X-ray object on 7--8 September 1998 with the ASCA Galactic center survey observation. Then, coherent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masaaki Sakano , Ken'ichi Torii , Katsuji Koyama , Yoshitomo Maeda , Shigeo Yamauchi

We present the hard X-ray (20-100 keV) observations of Cygnus X-1 obtained using a large area balloon-borne Xenon filled Multi-anode Proportional Counter (XMPC) telescope. The observations were carried out during the gamma_2 state of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. R. Chitnis , A. R. Rao , P. C. Agrawal

We present X-ray and multiwavelength studies of a sample of eight high-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with disc-like H\beta emission-line profiles selected from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7. These sources have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 B. Luo , W. N. Brandt , M. Eracleous , Jian Wu , P. B. Hall , A. Rafiee , D. P. Schneider , Jianfeng Wu

In a 52 ks-long Chandra ACIS-S observation of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 3628, obtained to study the starburst-driven outflow from this galaxy, we have detected a very luminous (L_X = 1.1e40 erg/s in the 0.3-8.0 keV energy band) point…

The location of the obscuring "torus" in an active galactic nucleus (AGN) is still an unresolved issue. The line widths of X-ray fluorescence lines originated from the torus, particularly Fe K$\alpha$, carry key information on the radii of…

Long observation (1972 - 2009) of the powerful discrete source in Galaxy Cygnus X-3 discovered its main properties and let to develop a real model of this unique object. It is short binary system with 4.8 hour orbital period including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-05-07 A. M. Galper , B. I. Luchkov , Yu. T. Yurkin

Cygnus X-3 is a high-mass X-ray binary with a compact object accreting matter from a Wolf-Rayet donor star. Recently, it has been revealed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) as a hidden Galactic ultra-luminous X-ray (ULX)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 Jun Yang , Federico García , Santiago del Palacio , Ralph Spencer , Zsolt Paragi , Noel Castro Segura , Biping Gong , Hongmin Cao , Wen Chen

(abridged) We present an analysis of the deepest hard X-ray survey to date of about 2500 deg^2 performed by the IBIS instrument on board INTEGRAL in the 20-60 keV band, with a total exposure time of 4 Ms. We find 34 candidate sources. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Paltani , R. Walter , I. M. McHardy , T. Dwelly , C. Steiner , T. J. -L. Courvoisier

We present NuSTAR observations of the powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A, focusing on the central absorbed active galactic nucleus (AGN). Cygnus A is embedded in a cool-core galaxy cluster, and hence we also examine archival XMM-Newton data to…

We have used the Chandra X-ray Observatory to resolve spatially and spectrally the X-ray emission from the Circinus Galaxy. We report here on the nature of the X-ray emission from the off-nuclear point sources associated with the disk of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 F. E. Bauer , W. N. Brandt , R. M. Sambruna , G. Chartas , G. P. Garmire , S. Kaspi , H. Netzer

We present the results of optical spectroscopic identifications of a bright subsample of 2-10keV hard X-ray selected sources from the ASCA Medium Sensitivity Survey in the northern sky. The flux limit of the subsample is 3*10^-13 erg s^-1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masayuki Akiyama , Yoshihiro Ueda , Kouji Ohta , Tadayuki Takahashi , Toru Yamada

VLT J- to M\p-band adaptive optics observations of the Circinus Galaxy on parsec scales resolve a central bright Ks-band source with a FWHM size of 1.9 $\pm$ 0.6 pc. This source is only visible at wavelengths longward of 1.6 $\mu$m and…

We detail the spectral analysis of a 170 ks XRISM Resolve observation of the core of Cygnus A. The high spectral resolution of Resolve have enabled us to probe the inner accretion region of Cygnus A by analyzing the 6.4 keV Fe K$\alpha$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-19 Anwesh Majumder , T. Heckman , L. Gu , A. Simionescu , B. R. McNamara , A. Ptak , E. Hodges-Kluck , M. Yukita , M. W. Wise , N. Roy

We report results of one-day simultaneous multiwavelength observations of Cygnus X-2 using XMM, Chandra, the European VLBI Network and the XMM Optical Monitor. During the observations, the source did not exhibit Z-track movement, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 M. Balucinska-Church , N. S. Schulz , J. Wilms , A. Gibiec , M. Hanke , R. E. Spencer , A. Rushton , M. J. Church

We report the results of a survey of the Galactic Center region (|l| < 2deg, |b| < 0.5deg) performed with the BeppoSAX satellite. The flux from the center of our Galaxy corresponds to a luminosity of ~3 10^{35} erg/s in the 2-10 keV range.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Sidoli , S. Mereghetti , G. L. Israel , L. Chiappetti , A. Treves , M. Orlandini

We report the results from a deep ROSAT PSPC observation of LINER galaxy NGC 4736. Two bright sources are detected, separated by only about 1', with the brighter one coinciding with the center of the galaxy. Neither source shows apparent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Wei Cui , Dan Feldkun , Robert Braun

Cygnus X-3 is a strong X-ray source (L_X about 10^38 erg/s) which is thought to consist of a compact object, accreting matter from a helium star. We find analytically that the estimated ranges of mass-loss rate and orbital-period derivative…

The central pointlike X-ray source of the Cas A supernova remnant was discovered in the Chandra First Light Observation and found later in the archival ROSAT and Einstein images. The analysis of these data does not show statistically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. G. Pavlov , V. E. Zavlin , B. Aschenbach , J. Truemper , D. Sanwal

We present the results of the GRANAT/SIGMA hard X-/soft gamma-ray long-term monitoring of the Galactic Center (GC) region concerning the source GRO J1744-28, discovered on 1995 Dec. 2 by CGRO/BATSE. SIGMA observed the region containing the…

An X-ray compact source was discovered with Chandra in a supernova remnant (SNR) N23, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The compact source (CXOU J050552.3-680141) is seen in only the hard band (> 2 keV) image of N23, while the soft…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Asami Hayato , Aya Bamba , Toru Tamagawa , Kiyoshi Kawabata