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Context. We report the discovery of a new luminous supersoft source, XMMU J005455.0-374117, in the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300, in XMM-Newton observations performed on 2005 May 22 and on 2005 November 25. The source is not present in ROSAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Carpano , J. Wilms , M. Schirmer , E. Kendziorra

We use a Chandra X-ray observation of the gravitationally lensed system MGB2016+112 at z=3.273 to elucidate presence of at least two X-ray sources. We find that these sources are consistent with the VLBI components measured by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 Daniel Schwartz , Cristiana Spingola , Anna Barnacka

After nearly a decade in quiescence, the accreting millisecond pulsar IGR J17511$-$3057 displayed a new outburst on 2025 February 11, its third since discovery, following previous activity in 2009 and 2015. We report on an XMM-Newton Target…

We combine 9 ROSAT, 9 Chandra, and 2 XMM-Newton observations of the Cen~A galaxy to obtain the X-ray light curve of 1RXH J132519.8-430312 (=CXOU J132519.9$-$430317) spanning 1990 to 2003. The source reached a peak 0.1-2.4 keV flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kajal K. Ghosh , Mark H. Finger , Douglas A. Swartz , Allyn F. Tennant , Kinwah Wu

We present an analysis of the Suzaku observation of the northeastern rim of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant. The high detection efficiency together with the high spectral resolution of the Suzaku X-ray CCD camera enables us to detect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Emi Miyata , Kuniaki Masai , John P. Hughes

We present new astrometric solutions and infrared Hubble Space Telescope observations of GX 17+2 (X1813-140), one of the brightest X-ray sources on the celestial sphere. Despite 30 years of intensive study, and the existence of a strong…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eric W. Deutsch , Bruce Margon , Scott F. Anderson , Stefanie Wachter , W. M. Goss

We present first results from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec), Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), and Keck Cosmic Webb Imager (KCWI) integral field spectroscopy of the powerful but highly obscured…

The examination of two 2010 Chandra ACIS exposures of the Circinus galaxy resulted in the discovery of two pulsators: CXO J141430.1-651621 and CXOU J141332.9-651756. We also detected 26-ks pulsations in CG X-1, consistently with previous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-08 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , D. Milisavljevic , M. Mapelli , L. Zampieri , L. Sidoli , G. Fabbiano , G. A. Rodríguez Castillo

During the $BeppoSAX$ survey of the Galactic Center region, we have discovered X-ray emission from the central region of the supernova remnant G0.9+0.1. The high interstellar absorption (N_H about 3 times 10^{23} cm^-2) is consistent with a…

We report Chandra imaging-spectroscopy and RXTE spectroscopy of the nearby, powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A. Various aspects of the results are discussed, including the X-ray properties of the nucleus, the radio hot spots, the cluster of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Wilson , K. A. Arnaud , D. A. Smith , Y. Terashima , A. J. Young

The ASCA satellite made 107 pointing observations on a 5 x 5 deg^2 region around the center of our Milky Way Galaxy (the Galactic Center) from 1993 to 1999. In the X-ray images of the 0.7--3 keV or 3--10 keV bands, we found 52 point sources…

Spitzer/IRS has revealed many sources with very deep Si features at 9.7micron (tau>1). We set out to investigate whether a strong Si absorption feature is a good indicator for the presence of a heavily obscured AGN. We compile X-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. Georgantopoulos , K. M. Dasyra , E. Rovilos , A. Pope , Y. Wu , M. Dickinson , A. Comastri , R. Gilli , D. Elbaz , L. Armus , A. Akylas

GRS 1758-258 is one of the few persistent hard X-ray emitters (E>100 keV) in the Galaxy. Using the ASCA satellite, we have obtained the first detailed data on GRS 1758-258 in the 1-10 keV range, where previous observations were affected by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Mereghetti , D. I. Cremonesi , F. Haardt , T. Murakami , T. Belloni , A. Goldwurm

We observed the globular cluster NGC 6652 with Chandra for 47.5 ks, detecting six known X-ray sources, as well as five previously undetected X-ray sources. Source A (XB 1832-330) is a well-known bright low-mass X-ray binary (LXMB). The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 W. S. Stacey , C. O. Heinke , H. N. Cohn , P. M. Lugger , A. Bahramian

The edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4565 was observed for $\sim$ 35 ks with ASCA in the 0.5-10 keV energy band. The X-ray emission was dominated by two bright sources, which can be identified with two point-like X-ray sources seen in the ROSAT…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tomohisa Ohnishi , Aya Kubota , Kazuo Makishima , Makoto Tashiro

(abridged) We present a catalog of 2357 point sources detected during 590 ks of Chandra observations of the 17-by-17 arcminute field around Sgr A*. This field encompasses a physical area of 40 by 40 pc at a distance of 8 kpc. The…

We observed 7 INTEGRAL sources with the Chandra X-ray Observatory to refine their localization to ~2 arcsec and to study their X-ray spectra. Two sources are inferred to have a Galactic origin: IGR J08390-4833 is most likely a magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Sazonov , M. Revnivtsev , R. Burenin , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev , W. R. Forman , S. S. Murray

We present follow-up observations of the serendipitously discovered 7-s X-ray pulsar AX J1845-0258, which displays characteristics similar to those observed in the anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs). We find a dramatic reduction in its 3-10 keV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Vasisht , E. V. Gotthelf , K. Torii , B. M. Gaensler

X-ray continuum emission of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may be reflected by circumnuclear dusty tori, producing prominent fluorescence iron lines at X-ray frequencies. Here we discuss the broad-band emission of three radio-loud AGN…