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The spectacular first light observation by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory revealed an X-ray point source near the center of the 300 yr old Cas A supernova remnant. We present an analysis of the public X-ray spectral and timing data. No…

We report results from a 30 ks observation of Cygnus X-1 with the High Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) on board the {\em Chandra X-ray Observatory}. Numerous absorption lines were detected in the HETGS spectrum. The lines…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Chulhoon Chang , Wei Cui

Using deep Chandra ACIS observation data for Cygnus A, we report evidence of non-thermal X-ray emission from radio lobes surrounded by a rich intra-cluster medium (ICM). The diffuse X-ray emission, which are associated with the eastern and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Y. Yaji , M. S. Tashiro , N. Isobe , M. Kino , K. Asada , H. Nagai , S. Koyama , M. Kusunose

We present results of optical identification of the ASCA Large Sky Survey. X-ray sources which have hard X-ray spectra were identified with type-2 AGN at redshifts smaller than 0.5. It is supported that the absorbed X-ray spectrum of type-2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 M. Akiyama , K. Ohta , T. Yamada , Y. Ueda , T. Takahashi , M. Sakano , T. Tsuru , I. Lehmann , G. Hasinger

We present total-intensity and polarized-intensity images of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant (SNR) observed by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The high angular-resolution and high-sensitivity images…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 X. H. Sun , X. Y. Gao , W. Reich , P. Jiang , D. Li , H. Yan , X. H. Li

Aims. We present a 0.2--200 keV broad-band study of absorbed AGN observed with INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton, Chandra and ASCA to investigate the continuum shape and the absorbing/reflecting medium properties. Methods. The sources are selected in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. De Rosa , L. Bassani , P. Ubertini , F. Panessa , A. Malizia , A. J. Dean , R. Walter

To improve our knowledge of nuclear emission in luminous QSOs at Cosmic Noon, we studied the X-ray emission of the WISE/SDSS-selected hyper-luminous (WISSH) QSO sample: 85 broad-line AGN with $L_{bol}>few\times 10^{47}\,erg\,s^{-1}$ at…

We report the discovery of the brightest X-ray source hosted by a faint (M_B=-16) dwarf galaxy in the immediate vicinity of the ultraluminous IRAS merging galaxy Mrk 273. The dwarf galaxy, 1.3 arcmin away from Mrk 273, is at the tip of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 X. -Y. Xia , Th. Boller , H. Wu , Z. -G. Deng , Y. Gao , Z. -L. Zou , Shude Mao , G. Borner

We report on preliminary results of IBIS/ISGRI serendipitous observations of Cygnus X-3 in the 15-100 keV energy range during the INTEGRAL Performance and Verification phase. This peculiar microquasar was inside IBIS/ISGRI field of view at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 P. Goldoni , J. -M. Bonnet-Bidaud , M. Falanga , A. Goldwurm

We have analyzed over 2 years of RXTE/ASM data for Cygnus X-1. We have detected the 5.6-day orbital period in Lomb-Scargle periodograms of both light curves and hardness ratios when Cyg X-1 was in the hard state. This detection was made…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Linqing Wen , Wei Cui , Alan M. Levine , Hale V. Bradt

We address the problem where the X-ray emission lines are formed and investigate orbital dynamics using Chandra HETG observations, photoionizing calculations and numerical wind-particle simulations.The observed Si XIV (6.185 A) and S XVI…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Vilhu , P. Hakala , D. C. Hannikainen , M. McCollough , K. Koljonen

We report the first detection of C$_2$ $A^1\Pi_u$--$X^1\Sigma_g^+$ (0,0) and CN $A^2\Pi_u$--$X^2\Sigma^+$ (0,0) absorption bands in the interstellar medium. The detection was made using the near-infrared (0.91--1.35 $\mu$m) high-resolution…

We observed the Cygnus Loop with XMM-Newton (9 pointings) and Suzaku (32 pointings) between 2002 and 2008. The total effective exposure time is 670.2 ks. By using all of the available data, we intended to improve a signal-to-noise ratio of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 H. Uchida , H. Tsunemi , N. Tominaga , S. Katsuda , M. Kimura , H. Kosugi , H. Takahashi , S. Takakura

We report the discovery of a bright X-ray transient, CXOU J132527.6-430023, in the nearby early-type galaxy NGC 5128. The source was first detected over the course of five Chandra observations in 2007, reaching an unabsorbed outburst…

The powerful combination of the Chandra X-ray telescope, the SCUBA submillimetre-wave camera and the gravitational lensing effect of the massive galaxy clusters A2390 and A1835 has been used to place stringent X-ray flux limits on six faint…

We report the results of a 50 ks Chandra observation of the recently discovered radio object G141.2+5.0, presumed to be a pulsar-wind nebula. We find a moderately bright unresolved X-ray source which we designate CXOU J033712.8 615302…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Stephen P. Reynolds , Kazimierz J. Borkowski

The XA region of the Cygnus Loop is a complex zone of radiative and nonradiative shocks interacting with interstellar clouds. We combine five far ultraviolet spectral observations from the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (HUT), a grid of 24…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles W. Danforth , William P. Blair , John C. Raymond

We report the detection of coherent pulsations from the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 7793 P13. The ~0.42s nearly sinusoidal pulsations were initially discovered in broadband X-ray observations using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR taken in 2016. We…

Context: Cygnus X-1 is a black hole X-ray binary system in which the black hole captures and accretes gas from the strong stellar wind emitted by its supergiant O9.7 companion star. The irradiation of the supergiant star essentially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Emmi Meyer-Hofmeister , B. F. Liu , E. Qiao , Ronald E. Taam

We report the first detection of flux variability in the most luminous X-ray source in the southern ring of the Cartwheel galaxy. XMM--Newton data show that the luminosity has varied over a timescale of six months from L[0.5-10] keV \~1.3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Wolter , G. Trinchieri , M. Colpi