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The X-ray persistent source 1E 1743.1-2843, located in the Galactic Centre region, has been detected by all X-ray telescope above 2 keV, whereas it is not visible in the soft X-rays (i. e. Rosat) because of the high column density along the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Del Santo , L. Sidoli , A. Bazzano , M. Cocchi , G. De Cesare , A. Paizis , P. Ubertini

We have made ROSAT PSPC and HRI X-ray observations to study the intracluster gas surrounding the powerful radio source Hercules A. The cluster is luminous in X-rays (L_bol = 4.8x10^37 W), and the host of the radio source is the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nectaria A. B. Gizani , J. P. Leahy

An excess over the extrapolation to the extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray ranges of the thermal emission from the hot intracluster medium has been detected in a number of clusters of galaxies. We briefly present each of the satellites…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Durret , J. S. Kaastra , J. Nevalainen , T. Ohashi , N. Werner

We present a catalogue of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) from the Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS) of southern-sky neutral hydrogen, which has 57 mK sensitivity and 1 km/s velocity resolution and was obtained with the Parkes Telescope. Our…

We present an analysis of 39 X-ray luminous early-type galaxies observed with the ROSAT PSPC. Using multi-component spectral and spatial fits to these data we have measured halo abundance, temperature, luminosity and surface brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ewan O'Sullivan , Trevor J. Ponman , Ross S. Collins

The cooling cores of clusters of galaxies are among the brightest thermal X-ray line sources in the universe. High resolution X-ray spectra would allow individual line fluxes to be measured. The fluxes of low ionization X-ray lines in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig L. Sarazin

We present a comparison of the leftover satellites at z=0 in a cold dark matter dominated simulation of the formation of the Local Group to the distribution of observed neutral hydrogen high-velocity clouds and compact high-velocity clouds.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Putman , B. Moore

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

We suggest that the high--velocity clouds (HVCs) are large clouds, with typical diameters of 25 kpc and containing 5e7 solar masses of neutral gas and 3e8 solar masses of dark matter, falling onto the Local Group; altogether the HVCs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 Leo Blitz , David N. Spergel , Peter J. Teuben , Dap Hartmann , W. Butler Burton

To gain insight into four highly ionized high-velocity clouds (HVCs) discovered by Sembach et al. (1999), we have analyzed data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) for the PKS 2155-304 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux

We present a study of the ionization and thermal structure of neutral hydrogen clouds located in the Galactic halo, immersed in the extragalactic background radiation field, and supposed to be in pressure equilibrium with the surrounding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Andrea Ferrara , George B. Field

A sample of 323 Ultraluminous IRAS galaxies (ULIRGs) has been correlated with the ROSAT All-Sky Survey and ROSAT public pointed observations. 22 objects are detected in ROSAT survey observations, and 6 ULIRGs are detected in addition in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. Boller

We report the results of a search for X-ray emission from quasar host clusters at moderate redshift using the {\sl ROSAT} HRI. We detect no emission from the host clusters of 3C~263 (z=0.646) and PKS~2352-34 (z=0.706) to 3$\sigma$\ limits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Patrick B. Hall , Erica Ellingson , Richard F. Green , Howard Yee

Chandra ACIS-I data of the molecular cloud and HII region complex NGC 6334 were analyzed. The hard X-ray clumps detected with ASCA (Sekimoto et al. 2000) were resolved into 792 point sources. After removing the point sources, an extended…

We have detected over 400 HI clouds in the lower halo of the Galaxy within the pilot region of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS), a region of the fourth quadrant that spans 18 degrees in longitude, 40 degrees in latitude and is centered on…

We present a detailed case study of the diffuse X-ray and H-alpha emission in the halo of NGC 253, a nearby edge-on starburst galaxy driving a galactic superwind. The arcsecond spatial resolution of the Chandra ACIS instrument allows us to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. K. Strickland , T. M. Heckman , K. A. Weaver , C. G. Hoopes , M. Dahlem

We use UKIRT and ASCA observations to determine the nature of a high redshift (z=2.35) narrow-line AGN, previously discovered by Almaini et al. (1995). The UKIRT observations show a broad Halpha line while no Hbeta line is detected. This…

Neutral hydrogen mapping of several small, very low column density High Velocity Clouds (HVC), using the Arecibo telescope, is reported. Some were found serendipitously superimposed at distinct velocities on largerHVCs; others were found to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Lyle Hoffman , E. E. Salpeter , Ajay Hirani

A class of compact, isolated high-velocity clouds which plausibly represents a homogeneous subsample of the HVC phenomenon in a single physical state was objectively identified by Braun and Burton (1999). Six examples of the CHVCs,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. B. Burton , Robert Braun

Spatial and spectral analysis of deep ROSAT HRI and PSPC observations of the near edge-on starburst galaxy NGC 253 reveal diffuse soft X-ray emission, which contributes 80% to its total X-ray luminosity (L$_{\rm X} = 5 10^{39}$ \ergsec,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Pietsch , A. Vogler , U. Klein , H. Zinnecker